{"title":"Antiquarian Books","description":"\u003cp\u003eBrowse our Antiquarian Books collection. New Arrival.\u003c\/p\u003e","products":[{"product_id":"stories-from-hans-anderson-victorian-cloth-book","title":"\"Stories From Hans Anderson\" Victorian Cloth Book","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"flex max-w-full flex-col flex-grow\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv data-message-model-slug=\"gpt-4o\" class=\"min-h-8 text-message flex w-full flex-col items-end gap-2 whitespace-normal break-words text-start [.text-message+\u0026amp;]:mt-5\" dir=\"auto\" data-message-id=\"d54d18e7-cf56-4889-810b-3d2e012bdb5a\" data-message-author-role=\"assistant\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"flex w-full flex-col gap-1 empty:hidden first:pt-[3px]\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"markdown prose w-full break-words dark:prose-invert light\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe book \u003cem\u003eStories from Hans Andersen\u003c\/em\u003e, illustrated by Edmund Dulac, was likely published in the early 20th century by George H. Doran Company in New York. This particular collection includes some of Hans Christian Andersen's most beloved fairy tales, such as \u003cem\u003eThe Snow Queen\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eThe Nightingale\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eThe Real Princess\u003c\/em\u003e (commonly known as \u003cem\u003eThe Princess and the Pea\u003c\/em\u003e), \u003cem\u003eThe Garden of Paradise\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eThe Mermaid\u003c\/em\u003e, and \u003cem\u003eThe Emperor's New Clothes\u003c\/em\u003e. The stories blend fantastical elements with moral and emotional depth, offering readers a mix of enchantment and introspection.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eAndersen's tales were written during the 19th century, a time when fairy tales gained prominence as a literary genre that appealed to both children and adults. His works often juxtapose the magical with the mundane, exploring themes of identity, love, sacrifice, and the human condition. This collection, accompanied by Dulac's exquisite illustrations, was designed to capture both the visual and literary imagination, making it appealing to families and collectors alike. Dulac's detailed and ethereal illustrations add a layer of artistry, elevating the experience of reading these timeless stories.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-pre-wrap leading-[1.7]\"\u003e[d]Author | Hans Christian Andersen [d]Title | Stories from Hans Andersen [d]Illustrator | Edmund Dulac [d]Publisher | George H. Doran Company, New York [d]Date | Early 20th century [d]Binding | Green cloth boards with blue and white illustrated decoration [d]Origin | United States [d]Language | English\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-pre-wrap leading-[1.7]\"\u003e[condition] A good copy overall. The green cloth boards are bright and the illustrated cover decoration is clear and appealing. The colored plates and frontispiece are present.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Austyn Marie","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":54512835363129,"sku":"ivi1789952704039","price":82.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0997\/7184\/2873\/files\/stories-from-hans-anderson-victorian-cloth-book_1.jpg?v=1789952754"},{"product_id":"english-house-design-a-review-by-ernest-willmott-1911","title":"English House Design: A Review by Ernest Willmott 1911","description":"\u003cp data-end=\"648\" data-start=\"154\"\u003e\u003cspan class=\"hover:entity-accent entity-underline inline cursor-pointer align-baseline\"\u003e\u003cspan class=\"whitespace-normal\"\u003eEnglish House Design\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e is a beautifully produced early 20th-century architectural study that captures the spirit and evolution of English domestic architecture at a pivotal moment in history. Written by \u003cspan class=\"hover:entity-accent entity-underline inline cursor-pointer align-baseline\"\u003e\u003cspan class=\"whitespace-normal\"\u003eErnest Willmott\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e, a respected architect and Fellow of the Royal Institute of British Architects, this volume was published in London in 1911 by B. T. Batsford, one of the most important architectural publishers of the period.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-end=\"1238\" data-start=\"650\"\u003eThe book offers a thoughtful review of English house design from the 16th century through the early 20th century, examining how proportion, layout, materials, and craftsmanship shaped the English home. Willmott combines historical analysis with commentary on contemporary design, making the book both a record of the past and a guide for architects and designers of his own time. It reflects the strong influence of the Arts and Crafts movement, emphasizing tradition, quality, and livability at a moment just before modernism and World War I transformed English architecture forever.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003carticle data-turn=\"user\" data-scroll-anchor=\"false\" data-testid=\"conversation-turn-7\" data-turn-id=\"866e6d87-05e4-44d7-958f-b0bd43cd49e1\" dir=\"auto\" class=\"text-token-text-primary w-full focus:outline-none [--shadow-height:45px] has-data-writing-block:pointer-events-none has-data-writing-block:-mt-(--shadow-height) has-data-writing-block:pt-(--shadow-height) [\u0026amp;:has([data-writing-block])\u0026gt;*]:pointer-events-auto scroll-mt-(--header-height)\" tabindex=\"-1\"\u003e\u003c\/article\u003e\n\u003carticle data-turn=\"assistant\" data-scroll-anchor=\"true\" data-testid=\"conversation-turn-8\" data-turn-id=\"97753211-169a-4cb5-bb88-2b111c15a200\" dir=\"auto\" class=\"text-token-text-primary w-full focus:outline-none [--shadow-height:45px] has-data-writing-block:pointer-events-none has-data-writing-block:-mt-(--shadow-height) has-data-writing-block:pt-(--shadow-height) [\u0026amp;:has([data-writing-block])\u0026gt;*]:pointer-events-auto scroll-mt-[calc(var(--header-height)+min(200px,max(70px,20svh)))]\" tabindex=\"-1\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"text-base my-auto mx-auto pb-10 [--thread-content-margin:--spacing(4)] @w-sm\/main:[--thread-content-margin:--spacing(6)] @w-lg\/main:[--thread-content-margin:--spacing(16)] px-(--thread-content-margin)\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"[--thread-content-max-width:40rem] @w-lg\/main:[--thread-content-max-width:48rem] mx-auto max-w-(--thread-content-max-width) flex-1 group\/turn-messages focus-visible:outline-hidden relative flex w-full min-w-0 flex-col agent-turn\" tabindex=\"-1\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"flex max-w-full flex-col grow\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv data-message-model-slug=\"gpt-5-2-thinking\" class=\"min-h-8 text-message relative flex w-full flex-col items-end gap-2 text-start break-words whitespace-normal [.text-message+\u0026amp;]:mt-1\" dir=\"auto\" data-message-id=\"c1b93142-14cd-48ac-a937-2c30b6da3f44\" data-message-author-role=\"assistant\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"flex w-full flex-col gap-1 empty:hidden first:pt-[1px]\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"markdown prose dark:prose-invert w-full wrap-break-word dark markdown-new-styling\"\u003e\n\u003cul\u003e\u003c\/ul\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-pre-wrap leading-[1.7]\"\u003e[d]Author | Ernest Willmott, F.R.I.B.A. [d]Title | English House Design: A Review [d]Publisher | B. T. Batsford [d]Date | 1911 (first edition, MCMXI) [d]Binding | Publisher's original rust and brown cloth boards with gilt-stamped title and floral devices [d]Dimensions | 10 in H x 7 in W x 1 in D [d]Origin | London, England [d]Edition | First edition\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-pre-wrap leading-[1.7]\"\u003e[condition] The original cloth binding is firm and intact. Light rubbing and mild edge wear are present throughout, with gentle fading to the spine, all consistent with a book of this age and well within what one expects from a working copy more than a century old. The gilt lettering on the spine and front board remains clear and attractive. Internally, the pages are clean overall. Moderate foxing and age toning are present, most noticeable on the endpapers and a few of the preliminary leaves, and lighter through the body of the text. The text block is solid with no loose or missing pages, and all plates are present and accounted for. The tissue-guarded frontispiece is intact.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/article\u003e","brand":"Austyn Marie Design","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":54512867475769,"sku":"htn1789953101973","price":27.45,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0997\/7184\/2873\/files\/english-house-design-a-review-by-ernest-willmott-1911_1.jpg?v=1789953107"},{"product_id":"antique-1822-thomas-campbell-pleasures-of-hope-full-calf-gilt-poetry","title":"Antique 1822 Thomas Campbell Pleasures of Hope Full Calf Gilt Poetry","description":"\u003cp class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal leading-[1.7]\"\u003eThe lyre and laurel blocked into both covers tells you what this book was for. It is a volume of poetry dressed to be given, and someone did exactly that. An ink inscription on a front leaf reads \"To Miss Isabella Martin, Dundee,\" which fits the decorative full calf, the gilt floral corners, and the all edges gilt that catch light when the book is closed. The text is Campbell's \u003cem\u003ePleasures of Hope\u003c\/em\u003e, the poem he wrote at twenty-one that made him famous overnight, here in the 1822 Longman New Edition with steel-engraved plates after Richard Westall. Small enough to hold in one hand, handsome enough to leave out.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-pre-wrap leading-[1.7]\"\u003e[d]Author | Thomas Campbell [d]Title | The Pleasures of Hope, with Other Poems [d]Illustrator | Richard Westall R.A., engraved by Charles Heath [d]Publisher | Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown, London; and Stirling and Slade, Edinburgh [d]Date | 1822 [d]Edition | New Edition [d]Binding | Full polished calf, gilt and blind tooled, all edges gilt, red morocco spine label [d]Pages | 144 [d]Dimensions | 6.75 in H x 4 in W x 0.75 in D [d]Inscription | Period ink gift inscription, \"To Miss Isabella Martin, Dundee\" [d]Provenance | Printed dedication to Robert Anderson M.D., Edinburgh, 1799, as issued [d]Language | English [d]Origin | United Kingdom\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-pre-wrap leading-[1.7]\"\u003e[condition] The binding is full calf, decoratively tooled in gilt and blind on both covers with a central lyre and wreath device, and is structurally sound with the text block firm. Wear is honest and consistent with age. The covers show surface staining and discoloration to the central panels, most noticeable on the front, along with scattered scratches and light marks. The corners are bumped and rubbed with some exposure, and there is wear along the joints and at the spine ends. The spine retains its red morocco label and gilt compartments, with rubbing to the high points and the date 1822 gilt at the foot. Internally the book is clean and bright with only minor age toning and occasional light spotting. The steel-engraved illustrated titles and plates after Westall are crisp. The engraved plates carry an 1820 imprint date, normal for a volume of this kind where earlier steel plates were bound into a later letterpress edition. All leaves and plates present. A genuine period gift inscription appears in ink on a front leaf. A handsome, complete gift binding showing its age.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Austyn Marie Design","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":54512882483513,"sku":"vud1789953320541","price":127.75,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0997\/7184\/2873\/files\/antique-1822-thomas-campbell-pleasures-of-hope-full-calf-gilt-poetry_1.jpg?v=1789953326"},{"product_id":"w-warde-fowler-julius-caesar-1892-kidderminster-school-prize-binding","title":"W Warde Fowler Julius Caesar 1892 Kidderminster School Prize Binding","description":"\u003cp class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal leading-[1.7]\"\u003eFull burgundy morocco with the gilt armorial of King Charles I School, Kidderminster, stamped on both boards, the crowned CR cipher above the school seal dated 1637, all of it carried out as a school prize binding around 1900. Inside the text is W. Warde Fowler's study of Julius Caesar from the Heroes of the Nations series, printed by Putnam in 1892, but the reason to own this copy is the documentation laid in with it. Two prize certificates survive, both awarded to J. F. Chadwick, one for Latin in Form V signed by headmaster H. de B. Gibbins, the other a Cambridge Local Examinations prize for Scripture dated 1900. The marbled edges and endpapers and the raised gilt spine bands finish a copy that reads as much as a record of one pupil's school career as a book about Rome.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-pre-wrap leading-[1.7]\"\u003e[d]Author | W. Warde Fowler, M.A. [d]Title | Julius Caesar and the Foundation of the Roman Imperial System [d]Series | Heroes of the Nations, edited by Evelyn Abbott [d]Publisher | G. P. Putnam's Sons, Knickerbocker Press [d]Date | 1892 [d]Edition | Early printing [d]Binding | Full burgundy morocco prize binding, gilt armorial of King Charles I School Kidderminster, raised bands, gilt spine tooling, marbled edges and endpapers [d]Illustrations | Photogravure frontispiece of the British Museum bust, wood-engraved plates and decorations [d]Provenance | Awarded to J. F. Chadwick, King Charles I School Kidderminster and Cambridge Local Examinations, two prize certificates laid in, circa 1900 [d]Dimensions | 7.5 in H x 5.5 in W x 1.5 in D [d]Language | English [d]Origin | United Kingdom\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-pre-wrap leading-[1.7]\"\u003e[condition] Externally good with honest wear to the binding. The leather spine label is cracked with loss at the second compartment, and the head of the spine is chipped and frayed with the red leather underlayer showing through. The corners are rubbed with some board exposed at the tips, and there is light surface scratching to the boards. The gilt armorial and spine tooling remain bright. Internally the text block is clean and bright, the photogravure frontispiece and wood engravings are crisp, and the hinges appear sound. The two prize certificates are present and laid in, one with a partly obscured signature. The marbled edges and endpapers are in good order.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Austyn Marie Design","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":54512883106105,"sku":"xtj1789953316958","price":146.25,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0997\/7184\/2873\/files\/w-warde-fowler-julius-caesar-1892-kidderminster-school-prize-binding_1.jpg?v=1789953328"},{"product_id":"antique-richard-hele-select-offices-of-private-devotion-1833-full-morocco","title":"Antique Richard Hele Select Offices of Private Devotion 1833 Full Morocco","description":"\u003cp class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal leading-[1.7]\"\u003eHele's \u003cem\u003eSelect Offices of Private Devotion\u003c\/em\u003e in full black morocco, an 1833 SPCK edition bound for the pocket and meant to be carried. The boards carry a gilt double-fillet border, the spine is divided by raised bands with gilt rules, and the lettering reads HELE'S DEVOTION. All three edges are gilt. Inside, the analytical table of contents lays out daily offices for the six days of the week, an office for the clergy, and offices for the Lord's Day, penitence, and Holy Communion, opening with preliminary instructions on prayer drawn from scripture. The work is attributed to Richard Hele and was issued by the Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge. A small leather devotional that earns its place on a shelf or a desk.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-pre-wrap leading-[1.7]\"\u003e[d]Author | Attributed to Richard Hele [d]Title | Select Offices of Private Devotion [d]Publisher | Printed for J. G. and F. Rivington for the Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge [d]Place | London [d]Date | 1833 [d]Edition | New and Improved Edition [d]Binding | Full black morocco, raised bands, gilt rules and border, all edges gilt [d]Pages | Approx. 419 plus front matter [d]Dimensions | 7.25 in H x 4.5 in W x 1 in D [d]Language | English [d]Origin | United Kingdom\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-pre-wrap leading-[1.7]\"\u003e[condition] The binding is sound and the text block firm. The morocco shows wear consistent with age, with rubbing and small losses to the leather at the spine ends, corners, and along the joints, and light scuffing across both boards. The gilt rules and spine lettering remain legible. The gilt edges hold their brightness. Internally the paper is clean with scattered light foxing, most visible on the early leaves, and a pencil notation appears on a flyleaf. A solid, attractive copy of a small prayer book that has clearly been used and kept.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Austyn Marie Design","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":54512883171641,"sku":"irs1789953328659","price":118.5,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0997\/7184\/2873\/files\/antique-richard-hele-select-offices-of-private-devotion-1833-full-morocco_1.jpg?v=1789953334"},{"product_id":"owen-meredith-lucile-antique-fine-red-morocco-binding-gilt-monogram","title":"Owen Meredith Lucile Antique Fine Red Morocco Binding Gilt Monogram","description":"\u003cp class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal leading-[1.7]\"\u003eOwen Meredith's \u003cem\u003eLucile\u003c\/em\u003e was printed in enormous numbers, but this copy was dressed in full red morocco with raised bands, gilt fleur-de-lis tooling in the spine compartments, and an entwined gilt monogram on the front board. The marbled endpapers are a combed pattern in red, blue, and cream, and the gilt turn-ins carry the decoration right to the inside edges. A later Chapman and Hall printing, bound the way Victorian readers dressed the poems they meant to keep. It sits in the hand like an object made to be owned rather than just read.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-pre-wrap leading-[1.7]\"\u003e[d]Author | Owen Meredith (Robert Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Earl of Lytton) [d]Title | Lucile [d]Publisher | Chapman and Hall, 193 Piccadilly, London [d]Date | New Edition, circa 1870s [d]Binding | Full red morocco, raised bands, gilt tooling, black morocco spine label [d]Features | Entwined gilt monogram to front board, initials possibly KIB, gilt fleur-de-lis spine tooling, gilt turn-ins, combed marbled endpapers [d]Dimensions | 6.5 in H x 4.25 in W x 1 in D [d]Language | English [d]Origin | England\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-pre-wrap leading-[1.7]\"\u003e[condition] The binding is in good condition throughout. The red morocco is bright with light surface wear and a few small marks consistent with age. There is wear at the spine ends and along the front joint, with minor rubbing to the gilt corner ornaments. The raised bands and fleur-de-lis tooling remain crisp and the black spine label is legible. Internally the text block is clean and sound, the marbled endpapers fresh. A handsome and structurally solid copy.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Austyn Marie Design","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":54512883204409,"sku":"red1789953329267","price":138.6,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0997\/7184\/2873\/files\/owen-meredith-lucile-antique-fine-red-morocco-binding-gilt-monogram_1.jpg?v=1789953334"},{"product_id":"the-guardian-steele-addison-2-volume-set-1818-green-morocco","title":"The Guardian Steele Addison 2 Volume Set 1818 Green Morocco","description":"\u003cp class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal leading-[1.7]\"\u003eThe Guardian came out of the same partnership that gave us The Tatler and The Spectator, Richard Steele and Joseph Addison writing daily essays on manners, education, religion, and the small absurdities of London life in 1713. This two volume set is the 1818 stereotyped edition printed by A. Wilson in Camden Town, bound in green morocco with gilt-tooled spines and stone-pattern marbled endpapers. The front endpaper of each volume carries two ownership inscriptions, the earlier recording that the set was bought at a library sale around 1840 and a later hand dated 27 April 1928. Neither name reads clearly now, which I rather like. It leaves the chain of ownership for the next reader to chase down.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-pre-wrap leading-[1.7]\"\u003e[d]Author | Richard Steele and Joseph Addison, with contributions by George Berkeley and Alexander Pope [d]Title | The Guardian, with Notes and Illustrations, in Two Volumes [d]Publisher | A. Wilson, Camden Town [d]Date | 1818 [d]Edition | Stereotyped edition [d]Volume | Complete in two volumes [d]Binding | Green morocco leather, gilt-tooled spines, raised bands [d]Features | Woodcut frontispiece in each volume, stone-pattern marbled endpapers, gilt board borders [d]Dimensions | 6 in H x 3.75 in W x 1.25 in D per volume [d]Inscription | Two ownership inscriptions to the front endpaper, names not fully legible, the later dated 27 April 1928 [d]Language | English [d]Origin | England\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-pre-wrap leading-[1.7]\"\u003e[condition] The bindings are sound and the boards firm, with the gilt on the spines bright and the tooling crisp. The green morocco shows scuffing and surface wear across the boards and some darkening to the leather, all consistent with age and handling. The marbled endpapers are clean and vivid. Each volume carries two ownership inscriptions to the front free endpaper in ink, partly legible, recording the set's purchase at a library sale around 1840 and a later note dated 27 April 1928. Text blocks are tight with light age toning to the pages and occasional minor foxing. A handsome and complete set that displays well.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Austyn Marie Design","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":54512883237177,"sku":"vwn1789953331800","price":177.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0997\/7184\/2873\/files\/the-guardian-steele-addison-2-volume-set-1818-green-morocco_1.jpg?v=1789953336"},{"product_id":"julia-kavanagh-woman-in-france-1850-antique-half-leather-books-two-volumes","title":"Julia Kavanagh Woman in France 1850 Antique Half-Leather Books Two Volumes","description":"\u003cp class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal\"\u003eTwo blue-cloth volumes with blue-black leather at the spine and corners sit together the way a matched set should, the gilt fleur-de-lis ornaments catching light the same way they did in 1850. Julia Kavanagh's survey of the women who shaped pre-Revolutionary France, her best-known work according to contemporaries, published by Smith, Elder in London in the same year Charlotte Brontë's publisher brought it out. Both volumes carry the armorial bookplate of John Dawson Mayne, Advocate-General of the Madras Presidency, Privy Council member, and author of the definitive text on Hindu law, a man who lived to 88 and read seriously his entire life. Eight steel-engraved portrait plates across the two volumes, Pompadour, du Barry, Marie-Antoinette, Madame Roland among them, each one printed with the fine line quality that steel engraving does better than any other method.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal\"\u003e[d]Author | Julia Kavanagh (1824–1877) [d]Title | Woman in France During the Eighteenth Century [d]Publisher | Smith, Elder and Co., London [d]Date | 1850 [d]Edition | First edition, first printing [d]Volumes | Two volumes, complete [d]Binding | Half-leather, blue-black leather spine and corners with blue cloth boards, gilt spine titling and gilt fleur-de-lis ornaments, marbled endpapers in blue, pink, and gold [d]Illustrations | Eight steel-engraved portrait plates: Madame du Barry, Duchess of Maine, Madame de Tencin, Madame de Châtelet, Madame de Pompadour (Vol. I); Marie-Antoinette, Madame Roland, Madame Tallien (Vol. II) [d]Provenance | Armorial bookplate of John Dawson Mayne (1828–1917), Advocate-General of the Madras Presidency, Privy Council member, author of \u003cem\u003eMayne's Hindu Law\u003c\/em\u003e; period manuscript annotations in ink throughout [d]Dimensions | 8 in H x 5.25 in W x 1.25 in D per volume [d]Language | English [d]Origin | United Kingdom\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-pre-wrap\"\u003e[condition] Both bindings are structurally sound with tight hinges throughout. The blue-black leather at the spines and corners shows age-appropriate surface wear and some fading, consistent with 175 years of use. The blue cloth boards retain good color. Gilt spine lettering and fleur-de-lis ornaments remain legible and present on both volumes. The marbled endpapers are intact with some edge wear at the corners. The text blocks are tight with light foxing on the title pages and to some preliminary and terminal leaves, as visible in the photographs. Portrait plates are present and complete across both volumes, with minor foxing on the tissue guards and plate pages. Period manuscript annotations appear in ink on the rear endpapers of at least one volume. The armorial bookplate of John Dawson Mayne is present in both volumes. A partially legible period inscription appears adjacent to one of the portrait plates. Overall a good, complete set with honest wear and significant documented provenance.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Austyn Marie Design","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":54512883630393,"sku":"pvo1789953333265","price":225.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0997\/7184\/2873\/files\/julia-kavanagh-woman-in-france-1850-antique-half-leather-books-two-volumes_1.jpg?v=1789953338"},{"product_id":"oliver-cromwell-by-charles-firth-winchester-college-prize-binding-1905","title":"Oliver Cromwell by Charles Firth, Winchester College Prize Binding, 1905","description":"\u003cp class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal leading-[1.7]\"\u003eThis is a fine full red morocco Winchester College prize binding, the front board tooled in gilt with the arms of William of Wykeham and the College motto, Manners Makyth Man. Inside, the printed prize label records that it was awarded from Part V of the College on the 5th of April 1906, for diligence in letters and good conduct. The binding is all-edges-gilt with marbled endpapers and a geometric Greek-key dentelle along the turn-ins, and it carries the ticket of E. S. Fowler, a bookseller in Eastbourne. Charles Firth's biography of Cromwell happens to be the text inside, which is a serious piece of scholarship in its own right, but a documented school prize binding in this condition is the reason to own it.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-pre-wrap leading-[1.7]\"\u003e[d]Author | Charles Firth, M.A. [d]Title | Oliver Cromwell and the Rule of the Puritans in England [d]Publisher | G. P. Putnam's Sons, The Knickerbocker Press [d]Date | 1905 printing [d]Binding | Full red morocco, gilt armorial, all edges gilt, marbled endpapers [d]Provenance | Winchester College prize, awarded 5 April 1906 [d]Illustrations | Portrait plates and a folding map of Ireland \u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e[d]Dimensions | 7.5 in H x 5.5 in W x 1.25 in D [d]Language | English [d]Origin | England\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-pre-wrap leading-[1.7]\"\u003e[condition] The binding is solid and the boards are bright, with the gilt armorial and border tooling crisp and fully legible. There is wear to the leather at the head of the spine and to the spine ends, with some surface loss at the top corner near the joint, all consistent with age and normal handling. The raised bands and gilt spine devices remain sharp. The hinges are sound. Inside, the text block is clean and tight, the all-edges-gilt still bright, with the printed prize label tipped to the front and the bookseller ticket on the pastedown. The folding map of Ireland and the portrait plates are present and clean. A handsome prize binding in very good condition overall.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Austyn Marie Design","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":54512883663161,"sku":"vyl1789953332671","price":128.7,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0997\/7184\/2873\/files\/oliver-cromwell-by-charles-firth-winchester-college-prize-binding-1905_1.jpg?v=1789953340"},{"product_id":"maitland-historical-charades-1847-antique-morocco-leather-book","title":"Maitland Historical Charades 1847 Antique Morocco Leather Book","description":"\u003cp class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal\"\u003eThat gilt border on the boards stops you before you even open it. The binding on this copy of Julia Charlotte Maitland's \u003cem\u003eHistorical Charades\u003c\/em\u003e is not standard issue — the typical 1847 copies appear in plain black calf, and this one has been dressed in brown morocco with an elaborate gilt-tooled border of diamonds and scrollwork, floral corner ornaments, and gilt dentelles inside the boards. Someone had this bound as a gift, and the care they took shows. Maitland published the book anonymously, as \"the Author of Letters from Madras,\" which was itself a modestly famous account of her years in colonial India. \u003cem\u003eHistorical Charades\u003c\/em\u003e is a different kind of project: a parlor game book built around British history, structured as an acted charade game for family Christmas gatherings. The charades move through medieval kings, early modern intrigue, and Victorian public life, and the framing device, a house party at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Percy, gives it warmth that lifts it above a dry educational exercise. The Polthorp Royal Library ticket on the front pastedown places this copy in Brighton's fashionable lending circuit in the mid-Victorian era, and it is, by dealer accounts, very scarce in commerce in any form.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-pre-wrap\"\u003e[d]Author | Julia Charlotte Maitland (published anonymously as \"the Author of Letters from Madras\") [d]Title | Historical Charades [d]Publisher | Longman, Brown, Green, and Longmans, London [d]Date | 1847 [d]Edition | First edition [d]Pages | 240 [d]Binding | Full brown morocco, elaborately gilt-tooled boards with diamond-and-scroll border, floral corner ornaments, raised bands and gilt-tooled spine compartments, gilt dentelles [d]Dimensions | 6.75 in H x 4.5 in W x 0.75 in D [d]Provenance | Polthorp Royal Library, Brighton (lending library ticket on front pastedown) [d]Language | English [d]Origin | United Kingdom\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-pre-wrap\"\u003e[condition] The binding shows honest wear consistent with its age and its life as a circulating library copy. The spine is significantly rubbed, with the gilding worn across the compartments and fraying at the head. The board corners show wear. The gilt border tooling on the boards retains good definition throughout, and the gilt dentelles inside the boards remain clear. The text block is clean and bright with minimal foxing — one small spot visible in the interior pages, nothing of consequence. The Polthorp Royal Library ticket is present and legible on the front pastedown. A sound, displayable copy of a very scarce book in a notably decorative binding.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Austyn Marie Design","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":54512883695929,"sku":"yrg1789953335612","price":112.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0997\/7184\/2873\/files\/maitland-historical-charades-1847-antique-morocco-leather-book_1.jpg?v=1789953340"},{"product_id":"thackeray-vanity-fair-1904-smith-elder-antique-leather-prize-binding","title":"Thackeray Vanity Fair 1904 Smith Elder Antique Leather Prize Binding","description":"\u003cp class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal\"\u003eThe gilt spine on a full tree calf binding, stamped with the armorial of an English grammar school and awarded at Midsummer 1905, is already a complete story before the book is even opened. Burnley Grammar School, founded in 1559, handed W. Benson of Form III this copy of Thackeray's sharpest social comedy as a prize for third place, less than a year after Smith, Elder printed it. The Chairman of Governors who signed off on that award was Ughtred Kay-Shuttleworth, 1st Baron Shuttleworth, whose family had been tangled up with Burnley Grammar for generations; his father had helped reform the school in the 1870s. The binding itself is the quality you'd commission for a prize: full tree calf with a richly tooled gilt spine on five raised bands, gilt-ruled board borders, marbled endpapers, and marbled page edges. Inside, Thackeray's own illustrations accompany his most celebrated novel, the one where no one is the hero because everyone is too busy pretending to be.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-pre-wrap\"\u003e[d]Author | William Makepeace Thackeray [d]Title | Vanity Fair: A Novel Without a Hero [d]Publisher | Smith, Elder, \u0026amp; Co. [d]Date | 1904 [d]Edition | Biographical Edition, Volume I (of the Works in Thirteen Volumes), with introductions by Anne Ritchie [d]Binding | Full tree calf, elaborately gilt spine on five raised bands, gilt-ruled board borders, marbled endpapers and page edges [d]Illustrator | William Makepeace Thackeray (author-illustrated; photographic portrait frontispiece plus 17 author-drawn plates) [d]Provenance | Burnley Grammar School prize binding, Midsummer 1905, awarded to W. Benson, Form III, 3rd Place; Chairman of Governors: Lord Shuttleworth (Ughtred Kay-Shuttleworth, 1st Baron Shuttleworth); Head Master: H.L. Joseland, M.A. [d]Dimensions | 7.75 in H x 5.75 in W x 1.75 in D [d]Language | English [d]Origin | United Kingdom\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-pre-wrap\"\u003e[condition] The binding is solid and the boards are firmly attached. The tree calf covering shows age-appropriate patina across the boards with characteristic flaming and mottling intact; there is light surface wear to the board edges and corners, with minor rubbing at the extremities. The gilt spine tooling retains strong definition across all compartments, though there is some fading and light loss to the gilding in the middle panels consistent with handling over 120 years. The gilt-ruled board borders are largely intact with minor interruptions. The prize label on the front pastedown is present and fully legible, cleanly adhered. The marbled endpapers and page edges are bright and show the original green, cream, and gold pattern clearly. The text block is tight and secure. The interior pages appear clean and free of significant foxing based on available photographs; any scattered spotting or toning should be noted by the seller upon final inspection. All plates appear present per the list of illustrations.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Austyn Marie Design","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":54512887857465,"sku":"fvd1789953378634","price":159.75,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0997\/7184\/2873\/files\/thackeray-vanity-fair-1904-smith-elder-antique-leather-prize-binding_1.jpg?v=1789953384"},{"product_id":"antique-marmontel-moral-tales-1821-full-calf-binding","title":"Antique Marmontel Moral Tales 1821 Full Calf Binding","description":"\u003cp class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal\"\u003eMarmontel's \u003cem\u003eMoral Tales\u003c\/em\u003e spent decades as one of the most widely read works of French prose fiction in English translation, and this 1821 London edition is a handsome example of a Regency trade binding done properly. The full calf covers carry blind-tooled arabesque panels, the kind of acanthus-scroll decoration that was already considered quietly classical by the time this copy was bound, and the spine is gilt throughout with a deep burgundy title label. Two engraved plates accompany the text, their imprints dated April 1827 in the standard registration practice of the period. A period ink inscription sits on the front endpaper, the hand clear and the date legible, the name not fully decipherable. It is a small, considered library book that has clearly lived on a shelf and been read.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-pre-wrap\"\u003e[d]Author | Jean-François Marmontel [d]Title | Moral Tales [d]Publisher | Printed for F.C. and J. Rivington et al. [d]Date | 1821 [d]Binding | Full calf, gilt and blind-tooled arabesque panels, gilt spine, burgundy morocco title label [d]Illustrations | Two engraved plates; plate imprints dated April 6, 1827 [d]Inscription | Period ink inscription to front endpaper; name not fully legible, date readable [d]Dimensions | 5.25 in H x 3 in W x 1 in D [d]Language | English [d]Origin | United Kingdom\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-pre-wrap\"\u003e[condition] The binding is original and structurally sound, with wear consistent with age and use. The spine shows rubbing and some fading to the gilt, with minor surface cracking to the calf along the joints. The arabesque panel tooling on the boards remains clear. The text block is tight. Foxing is present throughout the pages, light to moderate and typical for paper of this period and quality. The engraved plates are present and complete. The marbled endpapers and edges survive in good condition with some toning. An honest good copy, decorative and complete.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Austyn Marie Design","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":54512887923001,"sku":"zeo1789953379135","price":117.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0997\/7184\/2873\/files\/antique-marmontel-moral-tales-1821-full-calf-binding_1.jpg?v=1789953384"},{"product_id":"antique-dutch-new-testament-1851-silver-clasps-leather-binding-book","title":"Antique Dutch New Testament 1851 Silver Clasps Leather Binding Book","description":"\u003cp class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal\"\u003eThe clasps are what stop you first. Two pairs of Dutch silver, hinged and engraved with Rococo scrollwork, each stamped with the Dutch lion hallmark confirming .833 silver content. The book itself is a New Testament in the Statenvertaling, the Dutch Reformed authorized translation produced by the Synod of Dort in 1618 and 1619, this copy published by the Nederlandsche Bijbel-Compagnie in Amsterdam in 1851. The binding is blind-tooled leather in an all-over diamond grid, the text block gilt-edged, and the whole thing closes with a satisfying click when the clasps engage. A 175-year-old Dutch devotional book with intact, hallmarked silver hardware is not an everyday find.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal\"\u003e[d]Title | Het Nieuwe Testament [d]Publisher | Nederlandsche Bijbel-Compagnie, Amsterdam; J. Brandt en Zoon, Haarlem; P. Proost, Johannes Enschedé en Zonen, Enschede [d]Date | 1851 [d]Language | Dutch [d]Translation | Statenvertaling (Dutch Reformed Authorized Version, Synod of Dort, 1618-1619) [d]Binding | Full leather, all-over blind-tooled diamond grid pattern [d]Edges | Gilt [d]Clasps | Two pairs of Dutch silver hinged clasps with engraved Rococo scrollwork; lion passant hallmarks present [d]Dimensions | 6.25 in H x 4 in W x 2 in D [d]Origin | Netherlands\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal\"\u003e[condition]\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal\"\u003eThe binding is structurally sound. The leather covers are intact with the all-over blind tooling legible across both boards, showing age-appropriate wear, surface scuffing, and tonal variation to the leather. The spine is plain leather, blank, with no lettering, and shows fading relative to the boards. The silver clasps are all present and functional, with tarnish and surface oxidation consistent with age and honest use. The engraved ornament on the catch plates remains clear and detailed.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal\"\u003eThe text block is gilt-edged with the gilding intact. The endpapers and front matter show significant water staining, most heavily concentrated at the top of the early pages and the endpapers. This staining is visible but does not affect legibility of the text throughout the body of the book. Nothing is fully detached. Completeness of the text block has not been individually verified page by page.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Austyn Marie Design","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":54512887955769,"sku":"qvr1789953379110","price":98.8,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0997\/7184\/2873\/files\/antique-dutch-new-testament-1851-silver-clasps-leather-binding-book_1.jpg?v=1789953385"},{"product_id":"antique-tom-hood-pen-and-pencil-pictures-first-edition-1857","title":"Antique Tom Hood Pen and Pencil Pictures First Edition 1857","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"_chunkWrapper_6ta1u_30\"\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal\"\u003e\u003cspan class=\"_animating_6ta1u_10\" data-newtext-seq=\"0\"\u003eTom Hood was \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"_animating_6ta1u_10\" data-newtext-seq=\"13\"\u003eonly 22 when he wrote this, and the \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"_animating_6ta1u_10\" data-newtext-seq=\"49\"\u003ebinding it's wearing now is finer than \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"_animating_6ta1u_10\" data-newtext-seq=\"88\"\u003eanything his publisher put on it. The \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"_animating_6ta1u_10\" data-newtext-seq=\"126\"\u003egreen pebbled boards with their gilt \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"_animating_6ta1u_10\" data-newtext-seq=\"163\"\u003ecartouche medallion and the brown calf \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"_animating_6ta1u_10\" data-newtext-seq=\"202\"\u003espine with raised bands read as a \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"_animating_6ta1u_10\" data-newtext-seq=\"236\"\u003econfident Victorian rebind, the kind of \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"_animating_6ta1u_10\" data-newtext-seq=\"276\"\u003etreatment a well-loved book received \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"_animating_6ta1u_10\" data-newtext-seq=\"313\"\u003efrom a private owner who wanted it to \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"_animating_6ta1u_10\" data-newtext-seq=\"351\"\u003esit well on a proper shelf. Combined \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"_animating_6ta1u_10\" data-newtext-seq=\"388\"\u003ewith the manuscript inscription dated \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"_animating_6ta1u_10\" data-newtext-seq=\"426\"\u003e1898, there's a small chain of custody \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"_animating_6ta1u_10\" data-newtext-seq=\"465\"\u003ehere: a book given as a gift, 41 years \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"_animating_6ta1u_10\" data-newtext-seq=\"504\"\u003eafter it was published, dressed up for \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"_animating_6ta1u_10\" data-newtext-seq=\"543\"\u003ethe occasion.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"_chunkWrapper_6ta1u_30\"\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal\"\u003e\u003cspan class=\"_animating_6ta1u_10\" data-newtext-seq=\"0\"\u003e[d]Author | Tom Hood \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"_animating_6ta1u_10\" data-newtext-seq=\"21\"\u003e(Thomas Hood the Younger, 1835–1874)\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan class=\"_animating_6ta1u_10\" data-newtext-seq=\"21\"\u003e[d]\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"_animating_6ta1u_10\" data-newtext-seq=\"61\"\u003eTitle | Pen and Pencil Pictures\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan class=\"_animating_6ta1u_10\" data-newtext-seq=\"61\"\u003e[d]Publi\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"_animating_6ta1u_10\" data-newtext-seq=\"101\"\u003esher | Hurst and Blackett, London\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan class=\"_animating_6ta1u_10\" data-newtext-seq=\"101\"\u003e[d]Dat\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"_animating_6ta1u_10\" data-newtext-seq=\"141\"\u003ee | 1857\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan class=\"_animating_6ta1u_10\" data-newtext-seq=\"141\"\u003e[d]Edition | First edition\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan class=\"_animating_6ta1u_10\" data-newtext-seq=\"141\"\u003e[d]B\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"_animating_6ta1u_10\" data-newtext-seq=\"181\"\u003einding | Half calf and green pebbled \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"_animating_6ta1u_10\" data-newtext-seq=\"218\"\u003eleather; brown calf spine with five \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"_animating_6ta1u_10\" data-newtext-seq=\"254\"\u003eraised bands, gilt fillet ruling in \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"_animating_6ta1u_10\" data-newtext-seq=\"290\"\u003ecompartments, title lettered in gilt; \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"_animating_6ta1u_10\" data-newtext-seq=\"328\"\u003egreen pebbled leather boards with \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"_animating_6ta1u_10\" data-newtext-seq=\"362\"\u003edouble gilt fillet border and central \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"_animating_6ta1u_10\" data-newtext-seq=\"400\"\u003egilt cartouche medallion; gilt board \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"_animating_6ta1u_10\" data-newtext-seq=\"437\"\u003eedges; gilt page edges\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan class=\"_animating_6ta1u_10\" data-newtext-seq=\"437\"\u003e[d]Illustrations \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"_animating_6ta1u_10\" data-newtext-seq=\"477\"\u003e| Wood-engraved \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"_animating_6ta1u_10\" data-newtext-seq=\"493\"\u003eillustrations integrated throughout the \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"_animating_6ta1u_10\" data-newtext-seq=\"533\"\u003etext\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan class=\"_animating_6ta1u_10\" data-newtext-seq=\"533\"\u003e[d]Dimensions | 7.75 in H x 5 \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"_animating_6ta1u_10\" data-newtext-seq=\"568\"\u003ein W x 1 in D\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan class=\"_animating_6ta1u_10\" data-newtext-seq=\"568\"\u003e[d]Inscripti\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"_animating_6ta1u_10\" data-newtext-seq=\"594\"\u003eon | Manuscript gift \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"_animating_6ta1u_10\" data-newtext-seq=\"615\"\u003einscription to front endpaper, \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"_animating_6ta1u_10\" data-newtext-seq=\"646\"\u003edated May 31, 1898, \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"_animating_6ta1u_10\" data-newtext-seq=\"666\"\u003epartially legible; from a \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"_animating_6ta1u_10\" data-newtext-seq=\"692\"\u003emother to her child\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan class=\"_animating_6ta1u_10\" data-newtext-seq=\"692\"\u003e[d]Langu\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"_animating_6ta1u_10\" data-newtext-seq=\"720\"\u003eage | English\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan class=\"_animating_6ta1u_10\" data-newtext-seq=\"720\"\u003e[d]Orig\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"_animating_6ta1u_10\" data-newtext-seq=\"741\"\u003ein | United Kingdom\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"_chunkWrapper_6ta1u_30\"\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal\"\u003e\u003cspan class=\"_animating_6ta1u_10\" data-newtext-seq=\"0\"\u003e[condition]\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan class=\"_animating_6ta1u_10\" data-newtext-seq=\"0\"\u003eThe binding is in \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"_animating_6ta1u_10\" data-newtext-seq=\"30\"\u003egood condition with honest \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"_animating_6ta1u_10\" data-newtext-seq=\"57\"\u003ewear appropriate to its \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"_animating_6ta1u_10\" data-newtext-seq=\"81\"\u003eage. The spine shows rubbing and \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"_animating_6ta1u_10\" data-newtext-seq=\"114\"\u003esome fading to the calf, \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"_animating_6ta1u_10\" data-newtext-seq=\"139\"\u003ewith minor scuffing at the \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"_animating_6ta1u_10\" data-newtext-seq=\"166\"\u003ehead and tail. The green \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"_animating_6ta1u_10\" data-newtext-seq=\"191\"\u003eleather boards retain good \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"_animating_6ta1u_10\" data-newtext-seq=\"218\"\u003ecolor overall, with light \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"_animating_6ta1u_10\" data-newtext-seq=\"244\"\u003esurface wear at the corners \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"_animating_6ta1u_10\" data-newtext-seq=\"272\"\u003eand edges. The gilt cartouche \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"_animating_6ta1u_10\" data-newtext-seq=\"302\"\u003emedallion and border fillets \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"_animating_6ta1u_10\" data-newtext-seq=\"331\"\u003eremain largely legible. Page \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"_animating_6ta1u_10\" data-newtext-seq=\"360\"\u003eedges are gilt and show light \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"_animating_6ta1u_10\" data-newtext-seq=\"390\"\u003etoning consistent with age. \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"_animating_6ta1u_10\" data-newtext-seq=\"418\"\u003eThe text block is sound and \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"_animating_6ta1u_10\" data-newtext-seq=\"446\"\u003ethe pages appear clean and \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"_animating_6ta1u_10\" data-newtext-seq=\"473\"\u003ecream-toned with no significant \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"_animating_6ta1u_10\" data-newtext-seq=\"505\"\u003efoxing visible in the images. \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"_animating_6ta1u_10\" data-newtext-seq=\"535\"\u003eThe manuscript inscription to \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"_animating_6ta1u_10\" data-newtext-seq=\"565\"\u003ethe front endpaper is in \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"_animating_6ta1u_10\" data-newtext-seq=\"590\"\u003epencil or ink, partially \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"_animating_6ta1u_10\" data-newtext-seq=\"615\"\u003elegible, and presents no damage \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"_animating_6ta1u_10\" data-newtext-seq=\"647\"\u003eto the leaf itself. A sound, \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"_animating_6ta1u_10\" data-newtext-seq=\"676\"\u003epresentable copy in a binding well \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"_animating_6ta1u_10\" data-newtext-seq=\"711\"\u003eabove the original cloth issue.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Austyn Marie Design","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":54512892084537,"sku":"lsn1789953397346","price":200.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0997\/7184\/2873\/files\/antique-tom-hood-pen-and-pencil-pictures-first-edition-1857_1.jpg?v=1789953403"},{"product_id":"antique-schroter-alpine-flowers-1904-chromolithograph-botanical","title":"Antique Schroter Alpine Flowers 1904 Chromolithograph Botanical","description":"\u003cp class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal\"\u003ePublished in Zürich in 1904 as the ninth edition of a beloved pocket field guide, \u003cem\u003eColoured Vade-Mecum to the Alpine Flora\u003c\/em\u003e was designed to be carried into the Swiss Alps and used — which makes a copy this presentable genuinely pleasing to find. The chromolithographic plates by Werner and Winter of Frankfurt are the heart of it: full-page spreads of gentians, edelweiss, alpine roses, and mountain shrubs rendered in colours that have held remarkably well over 120 years. Text runs in English, French, and German throughout, and the authors include Prof. Dr. C. Schröter of ETH Zürich, one of Switzerland's most respected alpine botanists of his generation. A working naturalist's companion that has aged into something considerably more decorative.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-pre-wrap\"\u003e[d]Author | L. Schröter and Prof. Dr. C. Schröter [d]Title | Coloured Vade-Mecum to the Alpine Flora [d]Publisher | Albert Raustein [d]Date | 1904 [d]Edition | Ninth edition [d]Binding | Brown cloth boards with chromolithograph cover [d]Illustrations | 207 coloured chromolithographic plates by Werner and Winter, Frankfurt; 10 plain plates [d]Language | English, French, and German [d]Origin | Switzerland [d]Dimensions | 8.25 in H x 5.5 in W x 0.5 in D\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-pre-wrap\"\u003e[condition] Cloth boards are intact and holding well, with wear at the spine ends and corners consistent with age and use. The chromolithograph cover retains strong colour. Gilt spine lettering present and fully legible. Hinges tight. Text block shows light foxing throughout, typical for paper of this period. The chromolithographic plates are clean and the colours remain vivid. Rear board has minor surface wear. A sound, presentable copy.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Austyn Marie Design","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":54512893559097,"sku":"rbp1789953420398","price":102.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0997\/7184\/2873\/files\/antique-schroter-alpine-flowers-1904-chromolithograph-botanical_1.jpg?v=1789953425"},{"product_id":"poor-jack-captain-marryat-antique-leather-book-1909-prize-binding","title":"Poor Jack Captain Marryat Antique Leather Book 1909 Prize Binding","description":"\u003cp class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal\"\u003e\u003cem\u003ePoor Jack\u003c\/em\u003e by Captain Marryat, bound to order and formally presented as a prize or gift of honor in 1909 — the front pastedown carries a printed bookplate with the Latin inscription \u003cem\u003eHunc Librum D.D. Honoris Causa\u003c\/em\u003e (this book given and dedicated as a mark of honor) and a manuscript date in Roman numerals: M.D.CCCC.IX. Marryat himself was a decorated Royal Navy captain who served under Lord Cochrane, and \u003cem\u003ePoor Jack\u003c\/em\u003e — first published in 1840 — draws directly on that world: a first-person naval narrative following a sailor born in 1786 through the Napoleonic era, written by someone who had actually lived it. The boards are full leather with a warm mottled finish, marbled text block edges, rope-rolled board edges, and marbled pastedowns. A single frontispiece plate. The kind of binding that was made to last and has.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-pre-wrap\"\u003e[d]Author | Captain Frederick Marryat [d]Title | Poor Jack [d]Publisher | Blackie \u0026amp; Son, Limited [d]Place of Publication | London, Glasgow, and Dublin [d]Date | Circa 1890s, presented 1909 [d]Edition | Later reprint edition [d]Binding | Full leather, raised bands, gilt-tooled spine compartments, marbled text block edges, rope-rolled board edges, marbled pastedowns [d]Illustrations | Frontispiece plate [d]Provenance | Prize or presentation copy; bookplate reading Hunc Librum D.D. Honoris Causa with manuscript date M.D.CCCC.IX (1909) [d]Dimensions | 7 in H x 5 in W x 1 in D [d]Language | English [d]Origin | United Kingdom\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-pre-wrap\"\u003e[condition] The binding is structurally sound and displays well. The spine retains its gilt tooling throughout with good legibility on the titling panel. The leather across the spine compartments shows age-appropriate darkening, more pronounced toward the tail, where the spine has lifted slightly from the back board at the lower joint — a crack or separation at that point is the primary condition issue and should be examined before purchase if structural integrity is a concern. The boards themselves are firm. The leather across the front and rear boards shows the characteristic mottled finish of the period with some surface scuffing and tonal variation consistent with age and handling. The board edges retain the rope-roll impression in good condition. The marbled text block edges are present and legible. The frontispiece plate is present. The text block appears clean and tight from the images. The prize bookplate on the front pastedown is intact; the printed Latin inscription is fully legible and the manuscript date is readable. Overall a presentable copy with genuine provenance interest, sold as-is with the condition noted above.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Austyn Marie Design","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":54512894050617,"sku":"sbp1789953426206","price":90.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0997\/7184\/2873\/files\/poor-jack-captain-marryat-antique-leather-book-1909-prize-binding_1.jpg?v=1789953431"},{"product_id":"antique-virgil-opera-1744-brindley-leather-binding","title":"Antique Virgil Opera 1744 Brindley Leather Binding","description":"\u003cp class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal\"\u003eA small-format Georgian Virgil, printed in London by J. Brindley in 1744, in a contemporary full calf binding with a decorated gilt spine that remains the most compelling thing about it. The five compartments between raised bands are tooled with floral rosettes, daisy stamps, and interlaced borders, and the red morocco label lettered \u003cem\u003eVIRGILIUS\u003c\/em\u003e is intact and legible. Someone cared about how this copy was dressed. The front endpaper carries an unidentified armorial bookplate, the arms showing crosses and a crescent within a baroque cartouche, and the flyleaf bears a period ink inscription that possibly reads C. F. Dawson. The text block is clean, white, and tight throughout, which for a book of this age is genuinely notable. Virgil's complete works in Latin, the \u003cem\u003eEclogues\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eGeorgics\u003c\/em\u003e, and \u003cem\u003eAeneid\u003c\/em\u003e, in a copy with a quiet history still written into its pages.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-pre-wrap\"\u003e[d]Author | Publius Vergilius Maro (Virgil) [d]Title | Opera (Complete Works: Eclogues, Georgics, Aeneid) [d]Publisher | J. Brindley [d]Date | 1744 [d]Place of Publication | London [d]Binding | Contemporary full calf, gilt-tooled spine, raised bands, red morocco label [d]Dimensions | 5 in H x 3.25 in W x 1 in D [d]Provenance | Unidentified armorial bookplate; ink inscription possibly reading C. F. Dawson [d]Language | Latin [d]Origin | United Kingdom\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-pre-wrap\"\u003e[condition] The binding is sound and complete but shows honest wear consistent with nearly three centuries of existence. The boards have significant surface scuffing, rubbing, and scattered spotting to the calf; the leather at the spine base shows crumbling and some loss, with red-orange powdering visible. The hinges have surface cracking. The spine tooling is substantially intact and reads well across all five compartments despite the overall wear, and the red morocco label remains present and fully legible. The head of the spine shows some fraying. The text block is the best part of this copy: pages are clean, white, and free of foxing or annotations throughout, the paper fresh and bright for a 1744 printing. A green textile bookmark ribbon, period or near-period, is present though frayed. The marbled endpapers are intact with some toning. The armorial bookplate is pasted to the front pastedown in good condition. Overall: Good. The exterior shows its age; the interior does not.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Austyn Marie Design","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":54512894083385,"sku":"qdz1789953429439","price":131.25,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0997\/7184\/2873\/files\/antique-virgil-opera-1744-brindley-leather-binding_1.jpg?v=1789953435"},{"product_id":"antique-aytoun-lays-of-the-scottish-cavaliers-full-leather-1912","title":"Antique Aytoun Lays of the Scottish Cavaliers Full Leather 1912","description":"\u003cp class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal\"\u003eAntique Aytoun's \u003cem\u003eLays of the Scottish Cavaliers\u003c\/em\u003e in full tan calf, prize-bound and presented by the Bishop of Guiana on July 25, 1914, sits in my hands as one of those books that carries its moment clearly. The binding is warm and well-made, raised bands dividing a gilt-tooled spine into compartments, a roll-tool border gilt to all four edges of both boards, marbled endpapers and edges in the same burnt-orange palette throughout. Inside, the Blackwood 1912 text opens with the poem \"Edinburgh After Flodden,\" the first stanza exactly what you'd want from Victorian narrative verse on Scottish defeat and fire-lit hill signals. The dedication to Archibald William Montgomerie, Earl of Eglinton, is there in full. Six weeks after this copy was presented, Europe was at war.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal\"\u003e[d]Author | William Edmondstoune Aytoun\u003cbr\u003e[d]Title | Lays of the Scottish Cavaliers and Other Poems\u003cbr\u003e[d]Publisher | William Blackwood and Sons\u003cbr\u003e[d]Date | 1912\u003cbr\u003e[d]Edition | 1912 Blackwood and Sons edition\u003cbr\u003e[d]Binding | Full tan calf, raised bands, gilt tooled spine and board borders, marbled endpapers and edges\u003cbr\u003e[d]Dimensions | 6.5 in H x 4.25 in W x 1 in D\u003cbr\u003e[d]Inscription | Prize inscription: presented by the Bishop of Guiana, July 25, 1914\u003cbr\u003e[d]Language | English\u003cbr\u003e[d]Origin | United Kingdom\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal\"\u003e[condition]\u003cbr\u003eThe binding is in good to very good condition overall. The calf covers show surface scuffing and light wear consistent with age, most visible on the front board where the leather has some grazing and a few deeper marks. The gilt board border is intact and legible throughout. The spine is sound with the raised bands well-defined; the gilt tooling in the compartments retains good detail, with some wear to the top and bottom compartments. The title label shows some darkening and slight toning but remains readable. The joints are firm. Marbled endpapers and edges are bright and intact. The text block is clean and tight with no foxing visible. The prize inscription is in pencil to the front flyleaf, clear and stable.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Austyn Marie Design","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":54512895131961,"sku":"ryx1789953411923","price":131.25,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0997\/7184\/2873\/files\/antique-aytoun-lays-of-the-scottish-cavaliers-full-leather-1912_1.jpg?v=1789953439"},{"product_id":"thomas-hood-poems-of-wit-and-humour-1853","title":"Thomas Hood Poems of Wit and Humour 1853","description":"\u003cp class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal\"\u003eThe spine tells you everything before you even open it. Dense gilt tooling fills every compartment across five raised bands, a repeating geometric and floral pattern worked with real care into what is almost certainly green goatskin. The boards carry it through: a scrolling vine-and-flower border in gilt runs the full perimeter of both covers, delicate enough to suggest a bookbinder who knew what he was doing. Inside, a woodcut bookplate with Celtic knotwork corners and the Latin motto \u003cem\u003eSuscipiant Montes Pacem\u003c\/em\u003e places this copy in a country house library at some point in its life. The text is Thomas Hood's comic verse, a fifth edition from Moxon in 1853, but the text is not the point. The binding is.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal\"\u003e[d]Author | Thomas Hood\u003cbr\u003e[d]Title | Poems of Wit and Humour\u003cbr\u003e[d]Publisher | Edward Moxon, Dover Street, London\u003cbr\u003e[d]Date | 1853\u003cbr\u003e[d]Edition | Fifth Edition\u003cbr\u003e[d]Binding | Full green goatskin, elaborately gilt-tooled spine with raised bands, gilt vine-and-flower border to boards\u003cbr\u003e[d]Dimensions | 6.75 in H x 4.5 in W\u003cbr\u003e[d]Provenance | Woodcut bookplate with Celtic knotwork border and motto Suscipiant Montes Pacem; owner unidentified\u003cbr\u003e[d]Language | English\u003cbr\u003e[d]Origin | United Kingdom\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal\"\u003e[condition]\u003cbr\u003eThe leather shows honest age throughout: some wear to the board edges and corners, minor surface scuffing consistent with a well-handled 19th-century binding. The gilt tooling on the spine retains good definition, with expected softening in the most handled areas. The boards are sound and the hinges are firm. The text block shows light foxing, nothing major, and no loose or missing pages. The bookplate is intact. A solid, displayable copy of a fine Victorian binding.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Austyn Marie Design","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":54512895492409,"sku":"ycj1789953443116","price":154.05,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0997\/7184\/2873\/files\/thomas-hood-poems-of-wit-and-humour-1853_1.jpg?v=1789953448"},{"product_id":"queen-mary-a-drama-1875-first-edition-red-leather-alfred-tennyson","title":"Queen Mary A Drama 1875 First Edition Red Leather, Alfred Tennyson","description":"\u003cp class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal\"\u003eQueen Mary by Alfred Tennyson, first edition, published by Henry S. King in London in 1875, bound in full red leather with a richly gilt-tooled spine across five raised bands. Tennyson wrote this as his first drama, a five-act verse play about the doomed reign of Mary I of England, and it arrived to considerable attention — he was Poet Laureate at the height of his celebrity, and the Tudor queens were exactly the kind of subject that gripped the Victorian reading public. Someone named M.S. gave this copy to \"St Leonards\" on 12 August 1875, just months after publication, and that inscription in a confident Victorian hand tells you something about the household it entered: literate, current, and evidently with a taste for fine bindings.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal\"\u003e[d]Author | Alfred Tennyson (1809–1892), Poet Laureate\u003cbr\u003e[d]Title | Queen Mary: A Drama\u003cbr\u003e[d]Publisher | Henry S. King \u0026amp; Co., London\u003cbr\u003e[d]Date | 1875\u003cbr\u003e[d]Edition | First edition, Author's Edition\u003cbr\u003e[d]Binding | Full red leather, gilt-tooled spine with five raised bands, gilt roll border to boards, marbled endpapers and edges\u003cbr\u003e[d]Dimensions | 6.75 in H x 4.75 in W\u003cbr\u003e[d]Inscription | \"St Leonards from M.S. 12 August 1875\" — period gift inscription to title page\u003cbr\u003e[d]Language | English\u003cbr\u003e[d]Origin | England\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal\"\u003e[condition]\u003cbr\u003eThe binding is sound and the book is structurally solid throughout. The spine is the strongest element: the gilt tooling across all five compartments retains good definition and color, the green title label reads clearly, and the raised bands are firm. The leather at the spine shows light wear at the head and tail but no splitting or loss.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal\"\u003eThe boards are a different story. Both front and rear covers carry significant surface wear: scratching, scuffing, and some deeper score marks across the leather, particularly on the front board. The leather itself is not cracking, lifting, or deteriorating — it is stable and unbroken — but the surface has taken considerable use over 150 years and it shows. The gilt roll border at the board edges is partially legible; worn in places but present throughout. The joints appear tight with no cracking at the hinges.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal\"\u003eInternally the book is clean and complete. The text block is tight, the marbled endpapers and marbled edges are intact with good color, and the period inscription to the title page is clear. Scattered light foxing to the page margins throughout, consistent with age and paper quality. No missing pages, no loose leaves, no annotations beyond the gift inscription.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Austyn Marie Design","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":54512896016697,"sku":"cvo1789953445413","price":165.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0997\/7184\/2873\/files\/queen-mary-a-drama-1875-first-edition-red-leather-alfred-tennyson_1.jpg?v=1789953450"},{"product_id":"antique-lace-history-book-seven-centuries-of-lace-1908","title":"Antique Lace History Book, Seven Centuries of Lace, 1908","description":"\u003cp class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal\"\u003eA history of lace built around 120 full-page photographic plates, written by Maria Margaret Pollen, who assembled and catalogued the entire collection herself. First edition, 1908, in the original blue cloth with the lace plate mounted to the front board and gilt lettering to spine and cover. The plates are the reason to own it, large and clean, reproducing needle and bobbin lace from across seven centuries in crisp black and white. The text reflects real scholarship, drawn from her study of illuminated manuscripts and Italian frescoes, and the book remains a recognized reference in the field. This copy carries an armorial bookplate and an ink ownership signature to the front, a nice touch of earlier provenance though the names are not clearly legible. It shows honest wear to the boards but presents as a substantial, handsome volume.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal\"\u003e[d]Author | Mrs. John Hungerford Pollen (Maria Margaret Pollen)\u003cbr\u003e[d]Title | Seven Centuries of Lace\u003cbr\u003e[d]Preface | Alan Cole, C.B.\u003cbr\u003e[d]Publisher | William Heinemann, London; The Macmillan Company, New York\u003cbr\u003e[d]Date | 1908\u003cbr\u003e[d]Edition | First edition\u003cbr\u003e[d]Binding | Publisher's blue cloth, gilt lettering, mounted lace plate to front board\u003cbr\u003e[d]Pages | 59 pages text, plus 120 full-page illustrations\u003cbr\u003e[d]Illustrations | 120 full-page black and white photographic plates\u003cbr\u003e[d]Dimensions | 12.75 in H x 10.25 in W\u003cbr\u003e[d]Provenance | Armorial bookplate and ink ownership signature to front, names not legible\u003cbr\u003e[d]Language | English\u003cbr\u003e[d]Origin | England\u003cbr\u003e[condition]\u003cbr\u003eThe blue cloth boards are rubbed and show soiling and scuffing across the front, with some loss to the surface around the mounted lace plate. The spine is darkened with wear and fraying at the head and tail. The gilt lettering remains legible. The binding is sound and the text block holds firm. Internally there is foxing to the preliminary leaves, endpapers, and index, consistent with this title and this paper stock, while the 120 photographic plates remain clean and strong on their glossy stock. All plates present. An armorial bookplate and an ink signature appear to the front; neither is clearly legible. A good, honest copy with the appeal in the plates.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Austyn Marie Design","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":54512898572601,"sku":"sol1789953455582","price":192.5,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0997\/7184\/2873\/files\/antique-lace-history-book-seven-centuries-of-lace-1908_1.jpg?v=1789953460"},{"product_id":"antique-titian-art-book-time-life-library-of-art-1968","title":"Antique Titian Art Book, Time-Life Library of Art, 1968","description":"\u003cp class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal\"\u003eThe World of Titian comes from Time-Life's Library of Art series, and this copy still has the printed slipcase that most have lost, the one carrying the engraved view of Venice. Jay Williams traces Titian from his start as a child of the Renaissance through his long reign as Venice's great colorist. The plates are where it earns its keep. Titian's reds and that deep Venetian blue reproduce with real warmth, and the religious and mythological works fill the page. It reads as a reference and shelves as a clean maroon-and-cream block in a library or on a stack.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal\"\u003e[d]Author | Jay Williams and the Editors of Time-Life Books\u003cbr\u003e[d]Title | The World of Titian, c. 1488 to 1576\u003cbr\u003e[d]Publisher | Time-Life Books, New York\u003cbr\u003e[d]Date | 1968\u003cbr\u003e[d]Series | Time-Life Library of Art\u003cbr\u003e[d]Binding | Cloth-covered boards with original slipcase\u003cbr\u003e[d]Pages | 192\u003cbr\u003e[d]Dimensions | 12.75 in H x 9.5 in W\u003cbr\u003e[d]Language | English\u003cbr\u003e[d]Origin | United States\u003cbr\u003e[condition]\u003cbr\u003eThe binding is tight and square with clean boards and a sound gilt-lettered spine. The text block is bright and free of foxing or markings in the pages photographed. The slipcase is present, which is the harder part to find, and shows light edge wear and gentle rubbing to the printed engraving consistent with age and shelf storage. A very good copy overall, complete with its slipcase.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Austyn Marie Design","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":54512899129657,"sku":"pxt1789953466289","price":24.15,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0997\/7184\/2873\/files\/antique-titian-art-book-time-life-library-of-art-1968_1.jpg?v=1789953471"},{"product_id":"antique-india-book-prize-binding-finnemore-menpes-plates-1907","title":"Antique India Book Prize Binding Finnemore Menpes Plates 1907","description":"\u003cp class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal\"\u003eThe binding stopped me before I even opened it. Full scarlet leather over raised bands, gilt-tooled spine panels, marbled edges to the text block, and the armorial stamp of Boston Grammar School gilded onto both boards, the three-crown crest of Boston, Lincolnshire, with the motto \u003cem\u003eFloreat Bostona\u003c\/em\u003e on its ribbon beneath. Inside, the prize certificate is still present, dated July 1908, Form V, awarded for the prize subject. The book itself is John Finnemore's 1907 account of India for Adam and Charles Black, illustrated with twelve full-page colour plates by Mortimer Menpes, the Whistler-trained Australian painter whose portraits of Indian subjects, a veiled Rajput woman wearing a large nose ring, a Sikh warrior with sword and pipe, an elder in a yellow-green turban at prayer, are among the finest things the \u003cem\u003ePeeps at Many Lands\u003c\/em\u003e series ever produced. This is a prize binding commissioned for a specific student at a specific school in a specific year, and that chain of particulars is exactly what makes it worth keeping.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal\"\u003e[d]Author | John Finnemore\u003cbr\u003e[d]Illustrator | Mortimer Menpes (twelve full-page colour plates)\u003cbr\u003e[d]Title | Peeps at Many Lands: India\u003cbr\u003e[d]Publisher | Adam and Charles Black, London\u003cbr\u003e[d]Date | 1907\u003cbr\u003e[d]Edition | First edition\u003cbr\u003e[d]Binding | Full red leather prize binding, raised bands, gilt-tooled spine panels, gilt ruling to boards, marbled text block edges, marbled endpapers\u003cbr\u003e[d]Provenance | Boston Grammar School prize binding, 1908, Form V; armorial stamp of Boston Grammar School (three-crown crest, motto Floreat Bostona) gilt-stamped to front and rear boards; prize certificate present on front paste-down\u003cbr\u003e[d]Dimensions | 7.5 in H x 5.5 in W x 1 in D\u003cbr\u003e[d]Language | English\u003cbr\u003e[d]Origin | United Kingdom\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal\"\u003e[condition]\u003cbr\u003eThe scarlet leather is sound and intact, with surface scuffing and light scratching across both boards consistent with age and handling, most visible on the front. The gilt armorial stamp is clear and legible on both boards, with minor wear at the high points of the relief. The spine retains its gilt tooling well, with some rubbing to the leather between the raised bands and light fading toward the head. The marbled edges to the text block are bright and unfaded. The marbled endpapers are vivid, blue-dominated with red, orange, and cream swirling pattern, and show no foxing or toning. The prize certificate on the front paste-down is clean and fully legible. The text block is tight and the pages are clean throughout, with light age-appropriate toning to the paper. All twelve colour plates are present and show no foxing, tears, or detachment. A very good copy overall, with wear appropriately confined to the exterior.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Austyn Marie Design","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":54512899162425,"sku":"quy1789953468843","price":142.45,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0997\/7184\/2873\/files\/antique-india-book-prize-binding-finnemore-menpes-plates-1907_1.jpg?v=1789953474"},{"product_id":"antique-gothic-art-for-england-coffee-table-book","title":"Antique Gothic Art for England Coffee Table Book","description":"\u003cp class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal\"\u003eThe jewelled gold crown on the front of this V\u0026amp;A catalogue tells you what you are getting before you open it. Gothic: Art for England 1400 to 1547 is the book that accompanied the Victoria and Albert Museum's landmark 2003 exhibition, edited by Richard Marks and Paul Williamson. Across 496 pages it gathers tapestries, illuminated manuscripts, sculpture, jewellery, church plate, and royal portraiture from the last great age of English medieval art, with 410 colour plates and essays by the leading scholars of the period. A heavy folio in glossy black boards, it reads as well on a library table as it does open on a stand, and the subject puts it squarely in the world of English royalty and ecclesiastical splendour.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal\"\u003e[d]Author | Edited by Richard Marks and Paul Williamson\u003cbr\u003e[d]Title | Gothic: Art for England 1400-1547\u003cbr\u003e[d]Publisher | V\u0026amp;A Publications, distributed by Harry N. Abrams\u003cbr\u003e[d]Date | 2003\u003cbr\u003e[d]Edition | 2003 edition\u003cbr\u003e[d]Binding | Hardcover with dust jacket\u003cbr\u003e[d]Pages | 496\u003cbr\u003e[d]Illustrations | 410 colour plates, 65 black-and-white illustrations\u003cbr\u003e[d]Dimensions | 12 in H x 10.5 in W\u003cbr\u003e[d]Language | English\u003cbr\u003e[d]Origin | United Kingdom\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal\"\u003e[condition]\u003cbr\u003eThe boards are clean and square with a bright, unworn dust jacket. The text block is clean and tight throughout, free of foxing, inscriptions, and previous owner markings. Light handling wear consistent with a folio of this weight. A very good to near fine copy that displays beautifully.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Austyn Marie Design","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":54512902471993,"sku":"qwr1789953483071","price":30.87,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0997\/7184\/2873\/files\/antique-gothic-art-for-england-coffee-table-book_1.jpg?v=1789953488"},{"product_id":"antique-rubens-art-book-time-life-library-of-art-1967","title":"Antique Rubens Art Book, Time-Life Library of Art, 1967","description":"\u003cp class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal\"\u003eThe World of Rubens belongs to Time-Life's Library of Art series, and this volume pairs C. V. Wedgwood's text with the slipcase that so many copies have lost along the way. Wedgwood was a serious historian, not a staff writer, and she treats Rubens as painter, diplomat, and scholar rather than just a name on a wall. The interior plates carry the real appeal here. The mythological ceiling compositions and the religious works reproduce with the deep color this series was known for. It reads as a reference and shelves as a handsome brown-and-tan block in a library or on a stack.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal\"\u003e[d]Author | C. V. Wedgwood and the Editors of Time-Life Books\u003cbr\u003e[d]Title | The World of Rubens, 1577 to 1640\u003cbr\u003e[d]Publisher | Time Incorporated, New York\u003cbr\u003e[d]Date | 1967\u003cbr\u003e[d]Series | Time-Life Library of Art\u003cbr\u003e[d]Binding | Cloth-covered boards with original slipcase\u003cbr\u003e[d]Pages | 192\u003cbr\u003e[d]Dimensions | 12.75 in H x 9.5 in W\u003cbr\u003e[d]Language | English\u003cbr\u003e[d]Origin | United States\u003cbr\u003e[condition]\u003cbr\u003eThe binding is tight and square with the boards clean and the spine sound. The text block is bright and free of foxing or markings in the pages photographed. The slipcase is present, which is the harder part to find, and shows light rubbing to the printed art and gentle edge wear consistent with age and shelf storage. A very good copy overall, complete with its slipcase.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Austyn Marie Design","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":54512903946553,"sku":"okp1789953494189","price":24.5,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0997\/7184\/2873\/files\/antique-rubens-art-book-time-life-library-of-art-1967_1.jpg?v=1789953500"},{"product_id":"vintage-living-with-antiques-coffee-table-book","title":"Vintage Living with Antiques Coffee Table Book","description":"\u003cp class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal\"\u003eLiving with Antiques gathers the best of The Magazine Antiques into a room by room tour of American collections, photographed in the homes where they actually lived. Alice Winchester edited the magazine for over three decades, and her eye shows throughout. The book moves from Maryland and New York through Salem, Newport, and Milwaukee, documenting how serious collectors of the mid-century arranged early American furniture, ceramics, and art in real interiors. The quarter binding pairs a tan cloth spine with rose paper boards, and the heft and trim size make it as much a decorating reference as a coffee table piece.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal\"\u003e[d]Editor | Alice Winchester and the staff of The Magazine Antiques\u003cbr\u003e[d]Title | Living with Antiques\u003cbr\u003e[d]Publisher | Galahad Books, by arrangement with E. P. Dutton and Company\u003cbr\u003e[d]Date | Later printing of the 1963 edition\u003cbr\u003e[d]Edition | Later printing\u003cbr\u003e[d]Binding | Quarter cloth and paper covered boards\u003cbr\u003e[d]Pages | 288\u003cbr\u003e[d]Dimensions | 12.25 in H x 9.25 in W\u003cbr\u003e[d]Language | English\u003cbr\u003e[d]Origin | United States\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal\"\u003e[condition]\u003cbr\u003eThe binding is sound and the text block tight. The rose paper boards show soiling and handling marks across both covers, most visible on the back. The tan cloth spine is clean with the gilt publisher's device at the foot still legible. There is an owner inscription in ink on the first page. The interior pages are clean and bright with the black and white plates crisp throughout. A solid, presentable copy that displays well.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Austyn Marie Design","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":54512904962361,"sku":"oky1789953498499","price":25.84,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0997\/7184\/2873\/files\/vintage-living-with-antiques-coffee-table-book_1.jpg?v=1789953503"},{"product_id":"antique-leather-book-the-story-of-alfred-and-his-times-1900","title":"Antique Leather Book The Story of Alfred and His Times 1900","description":"\u003cp class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal\"\u003eThe gilt on this one is what stops you, a full leather binding worked over every edge with a fine tooled roll, raised bands on the spine, and a contrasting title panel lettered Alfred and His Times. Inside, the marbled endpapers and matching marbled edges pull in rust, blue, and ochre, and the gilt dentelles run right around the turn-ins. The text is M. Douglas's popular history of Alfred the Great and the early English world around him, published by Thomas Nelson and Sons in 1900, the year after the thousand-year anniversary of Alfred's death, when England was full of interest in the king. A retailer's stamp for Allman and Son of London sits on the front endpaper. This is a decorative binding first and foremost, the kind of small leather volume that earns its place on a shelf or a stack.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal\"\u003e[d]Author | M. Douglas\u003cbr\u003e[d]Title | The Story of Alfred and His Times\u003cbr\u003e[d]Publisher | Thomas Nelson and Sons, London, Edinburgh, and New York\u003cbr\u003e[d]Date | 1900\u003cbr\u003e[d]Binding | Full leather, gilt tooled spine and borders, raised bands\u003cbr\u003e[d]Features | Marbled endpapers and edges, gilt dentelles, retailer's stamp of Allman and Son, London\u003cbr\u003e[d]Illustrations | Black and white frontispiece and plates\u003cbr\u003e[d]Dimensions | 7.25 in H x 5 in W x 0.75 in D\u003cbr\u003e[d]Language | English\u003cbr\u003e[d]Origin | United Kingdom\u003cbr\u003e[condition]\u003cbr\u003eThe full leather binding is sound and holds together well, with the gilt tooling still bright across the spine and board borders. There is even soiling and darkening to the red leather on both boards, most visible across the centers, consistent with age and handling. The spine leather is toned. Light rubbing runs along the edges and corners where the gilt roll sits. Internally the text block is clean and the marbled endpapers are fresh, with light age toning and scattered foxing to the title page and a few leaves. The frontispiece and plates are present and clean. A retailer's stamp for Allman and Son, London appears on the front free endpaper. A handsome decorative volume overall, structurally solid and ready to display or shelve.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Austyn Marie Design","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":54512913711417,"sku":"rvo1789953530574","price":108.5,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0997\/7184\/2873\/files\/antique-leather-book-the-story-of-alfred-and-his-times-1900_1.jpg?v=1789953536"},{"product_id":"antique-victorian-history-book-great-britain-and-her-queen-1897","title":"Antique Victorian History Book Great Britain and Her Queen 1897","description":"\u003cp class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal\"\u003e\u003cem\u003eAnne E. Keeling's\u003c\/em\u003e Great Britain and Her Queen \u003cem\u003ewas published in its second, revised edition in 1897, the year of Victoria's Diamond Jubilee, and it reads like exactly that: a book timed to a national celebration and written with genuine feeling for the reign it describes. Keeling traces Victoria's sixty years on the throne from the girl-queen who came to the throne at eighteen through the Crimean War, Indian Mutiny, and the extraordinary expansion of British trade, missionary work, and empire that defined the Victorian age. The illustrations throughout are wood engravings and halftone portraits, including a fine frontispiece portrait of Victoria from a Russell \u0026amp; Sons photograph, and the chapters on Wesleyan missions make clear this was published specifically for a Methodist readership by the Wesleyan Methodist publishing house, Charles H. Kelly. The presentation inscription inside places this copy in the hands of a recipient of the Wesleyan Foreign Missionary Society in March 1902, which is precisely the community this book was made for.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal\"\u003e[d]Author | Anne E. Keeling\u003cbr\u003e[d]Title | Great Britain and Her Queen\u003cbr\u003e[d]Publisher | Charles H. Kelly, London\u003cbr\u003e[d]Date | 1897\u003cbr\u003e[d]Edition | Second Edition, Revised and Enlarged\u003cbr\u003e[d]Binding | Publisher's original decorated blue cloth\u003cbr\u003e[d]Pages | 244\u003cbr\u003e[d]Dimensions | 7.5 in H x 5.25 in W\u003cbr\u003e[d]Illustrations | Wood engravings and halftone portraits throughout; frontispiece portrait of Queen Victoria\u003cbr\u003e[d]Inscription | Presented by the Wesleyan Foreign Missionary Society, March 1902; recipient name partially legible\u003cbr\u003e[d]Language | English\u003cbr\u003e[d]Origin | United Kingdom\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal\"\u003e[condition]\u003cbr\u003eThe publisher's cloth binding shows age-appropriate wear, with rubbing and fraying at the spine ends and corner edges. The rear board carries some surface soiling. The spine retains its decorative black-stamped design and gilded titling, though the gilt shows wear. The text block has heavy foxing throughout the pages, which is consistent with the paper quality typical of popular Victorian illustrated publications from this period. The frontispiece and internal engravings remain clear and legible despite the general foxing. The paste-down carries a presentation inscription from the Wesleyan Foreign Missionary Society dated March 1902; the recipient's surname is partially legible. A later bookplate sticker reading \"Kelly McDonald\" has been applied over the publisher's advertisement page. The binding is structurally sound.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Austyn Marie Design","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":54512917610809,"sku":"zap1789953537811","price":83.75,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0997\/7184\/2873\/files\/antique-victorian-history-book-great-britain-and-her-queen-1897_1.jpg?v=1789953543"},{"product_id":"antique-longfellow-poetry-book-red-leather-1869","title":"Antique Longfellow Poetry Book Red Leather 1869","description":"\u003cp class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal\"\u003eLongfellow's Poetical Works came out of Frederick Warne's Chandos Classics series in 1869, the second title in the line, and this copy has been bound in full red morocco well above the standard the series usually wore. The boards carry blind-tooled Aesthetic strapwork with a small panel of gilt flowerheads, the spine is finished with raised bands and gilt floral compartments, and the edges are gilt throughout. The frontispiece portrait is engraved by J. Roskin and Son with a printed facsimile of Longfellow's signature beneath it, a common feature of the Chandos portraits and not a hand autograph. A period gift inscription to a Miss M L Walton, given for her birthday in the 1870s, adds a quiet human trace to the front matter. The feather-pattern marbled endpapers are especially good.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal\"\u003e[d]Author | Henry Wadsworth Longfellow\u003cbr\u003e[d]Title | The Poetical Works of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, With Illustrations\u003cbr\u003e[d]Publisher | Frederick Warne and Co., London\u003cbr\u003e[d]Date | 1869\u003cbr\u003e[d]Edition | Chandos Classics series, second title in the series\u003cbr\u003e[d]Binding | Full red morocco, raised bands, gilt spine, all edges gilt\u003cbr\u003e[d]Features | Blind-tooled Aesthetic strapwork boards, gilt floral tooling, marbled endpapers, engraved frontispiece portrait with printed facsimile signature\u003cbr\u003e[d]Inscription | Gift inscription to Miss M L Walton, birthday, dated 24th March 187- (final digit illegible), from W A L\u003cbr\u003e[d]Dimensions | 7.5 in H x 5 in W x 1.5 in D\u003cbr\u003e[d]Language | English\u003cbr\u003e[d]Origin | England\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal\"\u003e[condition]\u003cbr\u003eThe leather is bright with light rubbing to the surface and wear along the edges and corners. The spine ends are chipped, with a visible loss of leather at the head. The binding is firm and the text block clean and tight throughout, with strong gilt to the edges. Foxing is concentrated on the title page and adjacent prelims, lighter through the rest of the volume. The marbled endpapers are fresh and well preserved. A handsome decorative copy that displays well.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Austyn Marie Design","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":54512918430009,"sku":"aqj1789953540680","price":114.7,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0997\/7184\/2873\/files\/antique-longfellow-poetry-book-red-leather-1869_1.jpg?v=1789953546"},{"product_id":"antique-st-winifreds-blue-calf-bound-victorian-school-novel-1879","title":"Antique St. Winifred's Blue Calf Bound Victorian School Novel, 1879","description":"\u003cp class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal\"\u003eFrederic Farrar's St. Winifred's, the boarding school novel he wrote in the vein of his better known Eric, all loyalty and temptation and the moral weather of Victorian boyhood. This is the Eleventh Edition from A. and C. Black, Edinburgh, 1879, with marbled endpapers, marbled edges, and an engraved frontispiece. What makes this copy personal is the presentation inscription dated 31st August 1881, a father's gift to his son. A handsome decorative volume that reads as well on a shelf as it does in the hand.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal\"\u003e[d]Author | Frederic W. Farrar\u003cbr\u003e[d]Title | St. Winifred's, or The World of School\u003cbr\u003e[d]Publisher | A. \u0026amp; C. 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Internally the text block is tight and the pages are clean overall, with scattered foxing to the preliminaries and throughout, most noticeable on the endpapers and the blanks. The frontispiece and title vignette are present and clear. A presentation inscription in ink appears on the front free endpaper, dated August 1881, partially legible. A very good decorative copy.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Austyn Marie Design","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":54512921379129,"sku":"ejl1789953551101","price":127.75,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0997\/7184\/2873\/files\/antique-st-winifreds-blue-calf-bound-victorian-school-novel-1879_1.jpg?v=1789953556"},{"product_id":"antique-political-antiquities-of-greece-full-leather-book-1836","title":"Antique Political Antiquities of Greece Full Leather Book 1836","description":"\u003cp class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal\"\u003eThe binding is the story here. Blind-tooled Gothic Revival panels front and back, deep and crisp, with a red morocco spine label and gilt grape-leaf tooling between raised bands. Inside, the marbled endpapers and red-stained edges show the same care. The text is Karl Friedrich Hermann's handbook of ancient Greek political institutions, this being the first English edition, printed at Oxford by Talboys in 1836 and translated from the German original of 1831. A presentation inscription on the front endpaper carries the best wishes of one schoolboy to another on his leaving, dated Election 1864, the term Winchester and Eton both used for their leaving cycle. The names are present but written in a hand I would not transcribe with confidence, so I have left them as read.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal\"\u003e[d]Author | Karl Friedrich Hermann\u003cbr\u003e[d]Title | A Manual of the Political Antiquities of Greece, Historically Considered\u003cbr\u003e[d]Translator | Not named on title page\u003cbr\u003e[d]Publisher | D. A. 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The red morocco spine label is intact and the gilt tooling between the raised bands survives, with some loss typical of the period. Internally the text block is tight. The endpapers and early leaves show scattered foxing and light staining, heavier around the inscription, and the presentation inscription itself is legible in part though not fully. The marbled endpapers are bright and the red edges retain good color. A handsome and structurally sound copy that displays very well.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Austyn Marie Design","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":54512926425401,"sku":"kvc1789953543770","price":154.05,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0997\/7184\/2873\/files\/antique-political-antiquities-of-greece-full-leather-book-1836_1.jpg?v=1789953573"},{"product_id":"antique-youngs-night-thoughts-full-leather-eton-gift-1863","title":"Antique Young's Night Thoughts Full Leather Eton Gift 1863","description":"\u003cp class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal\"\u003eI picked up this copy of Young's Night Thoughts for the binding and for what someone wrote inside it. Full leather boards carry deep blind-tooled Gothic corners and a ruled border, the spine has raised bands with gilt ivy in the compartments, and the edges are stained a warm red that shows against the brilliant combed marbled endpapers. The inscription is the part I keep coming back to. It records a leaving gift from Eton, dated the 1864 Election, given to a young man named Pearson as he left the school. Edward Young's long meditation on mortality and consolation was exactly the sort of serious, improving book a Victorian gave a boy heading into the world. The leather is honestly worn, but the text block is clean and the whole thing reads as a real object with a real history.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal\"\u003e[d]Author | Edward Young\u003cbr\u003e[d]Title | Young's Night Thoughts (The Complaint, or Night-Thoughts on Life, Death, and Immortality)\u003cbr\u003e[d]Editor | Rev. George Gilfillan (Life and Critical Dissertation); text edited by Charles Cowden Clarke\u003cbr\u003e[d]Publisher | James Nichol, Edinburgh\u003cbr\u003e[d]Date | 1863\u003cbr\u003e[d]Edition | Nichol's Library Edition of the British Poets\u003cbr\u003e[d]Binding | Full leather, blind-tooled boards, raised bands, gilt spine\u003cbr\u003e[d]Pages | xxviii, 311\u003cbr\u003e[d]Dimensions | 9 in H x 5.75 in W x 1.25 in D\u003cbr\u003e[d]Inscription | Presentation inscription, an Eton leaving gift dated Election 1864, to Pearson; giver's name present but not fully legible\u003cbr\u003e[d]Features | Marbled endpapers, red-stained edges, red-ruled text borders\u003cbr\u003e[d]Origin | Scotland\u003cbr\u003e[d]Language | English\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal\"\u003e[condition]\u003cbr\u003eThe full leather binding shows honest wear consistent with age. There is leather loss and chipping at the head and tail of the spine, rubbing and surface abrasion across both boards, and wear to the corners. The blind tooling remains crisp and the gilt spine lettering and ivy tooling are still bright. Internally the book is clean and sound, with scattered light foxing and toning as expected. The front free endpaper carries an ink presentation inscription and a pencil price notation from a previous seller. The marbled endpapers are vivid and intact. A worn but structurally honest copy with genuine decorative and provenance interest.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Austyn Marie Design","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":54512932979001,"sku":"web1789953545798","price":160.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0997\/7184\/2873\/files\/antique-youngs-night-thoughts-full-leather-eton-gift-1863_1.jpg?v=1789953597"},{"product_id":"antique-history-of-george-iii-two-volumes-half-leather-1828","title":"Antique History of George III Two Volumes Half Leather 1828","description":"\u003cp\u003eTwo volumes from Robert Bissett's history of George III's reign, printed in Philadelphia by E. Littell in 1828 as the Library Edition. These are Volumes II and III of a three-volume set, bound in half leather with contrasting green morocco spine labels, gilt tooling to the compartments, and raised bands. The marbled endpapers and matching marbled edges are the real draw here, that dense brown-and-cream stone pattern that only the period binders did well. Bissett wrote from a firmly pro-government position, a Scottish historian defending Pitt's ministry, so the text reads as a window into how establishment Britain framed the American Revolution and the wars with France. Offered as a partial set of two, and priced accordingly, though the pair stands on its own as a handsome shelf presence.\u003cbr\u003e[d]Author | Robert Bissett, LL.D.\u003cbr\u003e[d]Title | The History of the Reign of George III\u003cbr\u003e[d]Publisher | E. Littell, Philadelphia\u003cbr\u003e[d]Date | 1828\u003cbr\u003e[d]Edition | Library Edition, new edition brought down to the death of the King\u003cbr\u003e[d]Volume\/Series | Volumes II and III of three (partial set)\u003cbr\u003e[d]Binding | Half leather over marbled boards, raised bands, green morocco labels, gilt tooling\u003cbr\u003e[d]Features | Marbled endpapers, marbled edges\u003cbr\u003e[d]Dimensions | 9 in H x 6 in W each, depths vary\u003cbr\u003e[d]Language | English\u003cbr\u003e[d]Origin | United States\u003cbr\u003e[condition]\u003cbr\u003eBoth volumes are structurally sound with the bindings firm and the spines intact. The leather shows age-appropriate wear, with rubbing to the spine ends and corners and light surface scuffing to the boards, consistent with books approaching two hundred years old. The green morocco labels are legible with clear gilt lettering. Interiors show scattered foxing and light toning to the pages, heaviest at the endleaves and title pages, which is typical for American paper of this period. The marbled edges and endpapers remain bright and attractive. No inscriptions or ownership markings. This is Volumes II and III only of a three-volume set, offered as a partial set.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Austyn Marie Design","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":54512936714553,"sku":"hpq1789953610123","price":90.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0997\/7184\/2873\/files\/antique-history-of-george-iii-two-volumes-half-leather-1828_1.jpg?v=1789953615"},{"product_id":"richard-mant-happiness-of-the-blessed-1837-antique-half-leather-book","title":"Richard Mant Happiness of the Blessed 1837 Antique Half Leather Book","description":"\u003cp class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal\"\u003eThe marbled boards on this 1837 Rivington edition are the first thing you notice, a bold shell pattern in burnt ochre and brown with threads of green running through it, and they set up the gilt-tooled calf spine beautifully. Richard Mant was Bishop of Down and Connor and a serious Anglican scholar, and this fourth edition of his meditation on the nature of heavenly life reflects exactly the kind of thoughtful, literary theology that Rivington published so well in the 1830s. The book moves through questions that were genuinely pressing to its first readers: what do the blessed experience, do they recognize one another, are there degrees of joy? Mant answers in prose and verse both, which gives the interior a rhythm that holds up to reading even now. Two ownership inscriptions place this copy in the hands of the Campbell family, née Pakenham, with a later descendant noting in a second hand that the first owner was her great-grandmother. It is the kind of provenance that makes a book feel inhabited rather than merely old.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-pre-wrap\"\u003e[d]Author | Richard Mant, D.D., M.R.I.A., Lord Bishop of Down and Connor [d]Title | The Happiness of the Blessed [d]Publisher | J.G. \u0026amp; F. Rivington, London [d]Date | 1837 [d]Edition | Fourth Edition, With Additions [d]Binding | Half calf with marbled paper boards, gilt-tooled spine, red morocco title label [d]Dimensions | 7.25 in H x 4.5 in W x 0.5 in D [d]Language | English [d]Origin | United Kingdom [d]Inscription | Ex Libris inscription to front flyleaf: Joan Esther Sybella Campbell, née Pakenham; later family inscription to rear flyleaf noting descent\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-pre-wrap\"\u003e[condition] The binding is structurally sound with the text block tight and square. The calf spine shows age-appropriate toning and light surface wear; the gilt tooling remains legible throughout with good overall impression. The red morocco title label is intact and fully legible. The marbled paper boards show rubbing and surface loss to the extremities, consistent with nearly two centuries of handling, most notably at the corners and along the board edges. The interior pages are clean and cream-toned with no significant foxing observed. There is a period inscription on the title page, contents not fully legible. The front flyleaf carries the Ex Libris ownership inscription in ink, and the rear flyleaf carries a second family inscription in ink, both clear. A presentable and honest copy.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Austyn Marie Design","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":54512956539193,"sku":"fhl1789953708441","price":103.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0997\/7184\/2873\/files\/richard-mant-happiness-of-the-blessed-1837-antique-half-leather-book_1.jpg?v=1789953714"},{"product_id":"montesquieu-grandeur-des-romains-1846-antique-french-prize-binding","title":"Montesquieu Grandeur des Romains 1846 Antique French Prize Binding","description":"\u003cp class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal\"\u003eThe centerpiece stamp on this binding stops you cold: Gothic cathedral spires flanking the Sacred Heart, with a banner beneath reading \"Maison des Oiseaux\" — the prize binding device of one of the most distinguished girls' schools in 19th-century Paris. The Pensionnat des Dames de Notre-Dame on the rue de Sèvres educated daughters of the French upper bourgeoisie and aristocracy, and their prize books are among the most recognizable institutional bindings of the period. The text inside is Montesquieu's \u003cem\u003eConsidérations sur les Causes de la Grandeur des Romains et de leur Décadence\u003c\/em\u003e, his 1734 analysis of Roman rise and fall that shaped Gibbon, influenced the American Founders, and became a cornerstone of serious French academic study. A tipped-in award certificate accompanies the volume, dated on its printed form to August 1835, though the book itself was printed in 1846 by A. Pornin et Cie of Tours — the certificate blank predates the printing, as was common with institutional prize forms. The binding is the piece here, and it is a very good one.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-pre-wrap\"\u003e[d]Author | Montesquieu (Charles-Louis de Secondat, Baron de La Brède et de Montesquieu) [d]Title | Considérations sur les Causes de la Grandeur des Romains et de leur Décadence [d]Publisher | A. Pornin et Cie, Imprimeurs-Libraires [d]Date | 1846 [d]Edition | 19th-century school edition [d]Binding | Institutional prize binding; dark green pebble-grain leather boards, darker spine leather, gilt centerpiece stamp with Maison des Oiseaux device, gilt scrollwork border and corner tooling, gilt-ruled raised band spine [d]Provenance | Prize binding from the Pensionnat des Dames de Notre-Dame (Maison des Oiseaux), Paris; tipped-in engraved award certificate dated August 1835 on printed form, with handwritten entries and signatures; student name not legible [d]Dimensions | 7.25 in H x 4.5 in W x 0.75 in D [d]Language | French [d]Origin | France\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-pre-wrap\"\u003e[condition] The binding is sound and displays well. Boards are dark green pebble-grain leather with the gilt Maison des Oiseaux centerpiece stamp intact and sharp; the scrollwork border tooling shows some rubbing and light wear at the corners and edges, consistent with age. The spine leather is slightly darker than the boards — typical of two-leather prize binding construction — with gilt-ruled panels clean and legible. Hinges are firm with no cracking or loosening. Fore-edges are gilt, showing light wear. The text block is tight with light, scattered foxing throughout; no loose or missing pages. The tipped-in award certificate shows foxing and age-related wear; it remains attached. Overall a solid, presentable copy whose value is in the binding and institutional provenance.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Austyn Marie Design","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":54512960569657,"sku":"gxm1789953715189","price":140.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0997\/7184\/2873\/files\/montesquieu-grandeur-des-romains-1846-antique-french-prize-binding_1.jpg?v=1789953720"},{"product_id":"antique-edwin-arnold-light-of-asia-1895-leather-prize-binding","title":"Antique Edwin Arnold Light of Asia 1895 Leather Prize Binding","description":"\u003cp class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal leading-[1.7]\"\u003eNavy morocco with a richly gilt raised-band spine, a red label, and both boards carrying the large gilt arms of The Grammar School, Bolton-le-Moors, crest dated 1524 and 1641, motto Mutare Vel Timere Sperno. This is Sir Edwin Arnold's verse life of the Buddha, the 1895 New Edition from Kegan Paul, with an etched author portrait frontispiece carrying his facsimile signature and woodcut illustrations through the text. The book that introduced Buddhism to a generation of English readers, here in a school prize binding rather than the usual trade cloth. Marbled endpapers and red marbled edges throughout.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-pre-wrap leading-[1.7]\"\u003e[d]Author | Sir Edwin Arnold [d]Title | The Light of Asia, or The Great Renunciation [d]Publisher | Kegan Paul, Trench, Trübner \u0026amp; Co. [d]Date | 1895 [d]Edition | New Edition [d]Binding | Full navy morocco, gilt armorial boards, raised bands [d]Features | Bolton Grammar School arms to both boards, etched portrait frontispiece, woodcut illustrations, marbled endpapers, red marbled edges [d]Pages | Approximately 238 [d]Dimensions | 6.25 in H x 4.5 in W x 1 in D [d]Language | English [d]Origin | United Kingdom\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-pre-wrap leading-[1.7]\"\u003e[condition] The binding is solid and the boards are firmly attached. The spine shows wear at the head and tail and along the raised bands, with some loss to the dark surface coating and the green tone showing through, all consistent with age. Gilt tooling on the spine and the armorial devices on both boards remains bright and crisp. Light surface scratching and handling marks to the boards. Corners show minor rubbing. A pencil inscription on the front free endpaper is too faint to read with confidence. Internally clean and tight, with the etched portrait frontispiece present. Marbled edges and endpapers are intact. A handsome prize binding overall.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Austyn Marie Design","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":54512960602425,"sku":"cto1789953715078","price":117.25,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0997\/7184\/2873\/files\/antique-edwin-arnold-light-of-asia-1895-leather-prize-binding_1.jpg?v=1789953720"},{"product_id":"antique-gray-collins-and-falconer-poetical-works-cookes-edition-1790s-leather-book","title":"Antique Gray Collins and Falconer Poetical Works Cooke's Edition 1790s Leather Book","description":"\u003cp class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal\"\u003eThree small antique-bound volumes of 18th-century English verse collected and published in London by Charles Cooke as part of his celebrated Pocket Edition of Select British Poets, this copy gathers Gray, Collins, and Falconer under one binding and dates to the mid-to-late 1790s. Cooke's series was a genuine cultural project: affordable, beautifully illustrated pocket editions intended to bring the national canon of British poetry to a wider reading public. Each section opens with an engraved title page and a scenic frontispiece. Gray's elegy, Collins's odes, Falconer's maritime epic \"The Shipwreck\" — three poets, three very different voices, one period leather volume that looks exactly right on a library shelf.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-pre-wrap\"\u003e[d]Author | Thomas Gray, William Collins, and William Falconer [d]Title | The Poetical Works of Thomas Gray, with Collins and Falconer [d]Publisher | C. Cooke, No. 17, Paternoster-Row, London [d]Date | Circa 1795-1799 [d]Edition | Cooke's Pocket Edition of Select British Poets [d]Binding | Full period calf with decorated spine; alternating black and red morocco panel onlays with gilt tooling; red gilt-lettered title label; red oval \"Cooke's Edition\" label at foot [d]Features | Multiple engraved frontispieces and vignette title pages throughout; period marbled endpapers in blue, grey, and red [d]Dimensions | 6 in W x 3.75 in H x 1 in D [d]Language | English [d]Origin | United Kingdom\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-pre-wrap\"\u003e[condition] The binding is structurally sound and displays well. The decorated spine retains its gilt tooling and both leather labels, with age-appropriate cracking and wear to the leather along the joints and at the head of the spine. The boards show surface rubbing and the characteristic mottled patina of period calf. The marbled endpapers are intact and attractive. The text block is clean with age-toning to the page edges and very minor scattered spotting; no owner markings. The engravings are present and clear. One condition issue to note: the first fourteen preliminary pages (the xiv prefatory gathering) remain connected to each other but have detached from the book block. The content is complete and present; the pages are not missing or damaged, but the gathering will require rebinding to be fully reattached. Offered as found.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Austyn Marie Design","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":54512961519929,"sku":"vqc1789953719513","price":131.25,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0997\/7184\/2873\/files\/antique-gray-collins-and-falconer-poetical-works-cookes-edition-1790s-leather-bo_1.jpg?v=1789953725"},{"product_id":"antique-last-of-the-barons-lytton-1905-pegram-illustrated-book","title":"Antique Last of the Barons Lytton 1905 Pegram Illustrated Book","description":"\u003cp class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal leading-[1.7]\"\u003eEdward Bulwer-Lytton's 1843 novel of Warwick the Kingmaker and the Wars of the Roses, here in the 1905 Nisbet printing with sixteen Fred Pegram illustrations first drawn for the 1897 edition. Pegram was a Punch and Graphic man, and his pen work has the looseness of someone who drew for a living. Bound in three-quarter tan leather over green cloth, with raised bands and gilt floral tooling to the spine. A reading copy with real presence, the kind that earns its place on a shelf rather than just filling it.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-pre-wrap leading-[1.7]\"\u003e[d]Author | Edward Bulwer-Lytton (Lord Lytton) [d]Title | The Last of the Barons [d]Illustrator | Fred Pegram [d]Publisher | James Nisbet \u0026amp; Co., Limited, London [d]Date | 1905 [d]Edition | Nisbet illustrated edition, Pegram plates first issued 1897 [d]Binding | Three-quarter tan leather over green cloth, raised bands, gilt tooling [d]Features | Sixteen illustrations, marbled endpapers and edges [d]Dimensions | 7.5 in H x 5.25 in W x 1.25 in D [d]Language | English [d]Origin | England\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-pre-wrap leading-[1.7]\"\u003e[condition] The binding is sound and the text block holds firm. The leather spine and corners show age, with rubbing and softening to the surface and light wear along the joints and at the head and tail of the spine. The green cloth boards have gentle surface wear and faint marking consistent with age. A few scattered spots of foxing appear in the prelims, with the text block otherwise clean and the plates bright. The marbled endpapers and edges remain strong in color. Worn with age in the way a well-kept book of this period should be, and structurally solid throughout.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Austyn Marie Design","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":54512968204601,"sku":"ajq1789953720981","price":112.5,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0997\/7184\/2873\/files\/antique-last-of-the-barons-lytton-1905-pegram-illustrated-book_1.jpg?v=1789953748"},{"product_id":"casquet-of-gems-1874-antique-celluloid-poetry-book","title":"Casquet of Gems 1874 Antique Celluloid Poetry Book","description":"\u003cp class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal leading-[1.7]\"\u003eThe front panel is what makes this one worth stopping for, a celluloid plaque printed in green and gilt with a Gothic cruciform border, a banner reading Casket of Gems, and a small spray of birds, lyre, and flowers. It is set into full green morocco with a richly gilt-tooled spine and brass edge mounts framing the panel. Published by William P. Nimmo in 1874, this is a Victorian gift anthology of selected verse, illustrated throughout with engraved plates and a chromolithographed half-title. An 1877 presentation inscription inside adds a quiet bit of history. The binding shows real wear, noted in full below, but the decorative front is unusual and reads beautifully on a shelf.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-pre-wrap leading-[1.7]\"\u003e[d]Title | The Casquet of Gems: Choice Selections from the Poets [d]Editor | William P. Nimmo [d]Publisher | William P. Nimmo, London and Edinburgh [d]Date | 1874 [d]Binding | Full green morocco with celluloid front panel and brass edge mounts [d]Features | Gilt-tooled spine, all edges gilt, chromolithographed half-title [d]Illustrations | Engraved plates by J.M. Corner, engraved portrait group [d]Inscription | Presentation inscription dated January 5th 1877, to Miss P. Swanie; ownership signature E. Clay [d]Dimensions | 7 in H x 5 in W x 1.5 in D [d]Language | English [d]Origin | United Kingdom\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-pre-wrap leading-[1.7]\"\u003e[condition] The front board is nearly detached. The front hinge is cracked through and the cords are exposed and starting to fail, so the cover hangs loosely and needs careful handling. The spine leather is worn at the head and tail with chips and losses at the crown. The celluloid front panel is scratched across the surface and lightly soiled, and the brass edge mounts show green verdigris at the corners. Inside, the text block is clean and tight with bright plates, and all edges gilt remain intact. This is a decorative copy with structural binding issues, priced and described accordingly. A capable binder could re-attach the front board.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Austyn Marie Design","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":54512969843001,"sku":"uxb1789953724331","price":156.2,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0997\/7184\/2873\/files\/casquet-of-gems-1874-antique-celluloid-poetry-book_1.jpg?v=1789953752"},{"product_id":"thomas-moore-poetical-works-1863-leather-gilt-edges","title":"Thomas Moore Poetical Works 1863 Leather Gilt Edges","description":"\u003cp class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal leading-[1.7]\"\u003eFull leather with blind-tooled Gothic Revival panels, raised bands, and an all-edges-gilt block that's been gauffered with a repeating tooled pattern, which you can see running the full fore-edge and top edge. Inside the front cover, a presentation inscription dated February 1863 puts a named gift into the same year the book was printed, which most surviving copies of this edition cannot claim. Halswelle's wood engravings carry the literary side, opening with Lalla Rookh and the dedication to Samuel Rogers. The leather is worn at the spine ends and corners and the front joint is starting to go, but the gilt edges have held their shine and the book sits well in the hand.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-pre-wrap leading-[1.7]\"\u003e[d]Author | Thomas Moore [d]Title | The Poetical Works of Thomas Moore [d]Illustrator | Keeley Halswelle [d]Publisher | William P. Nimmo, Edinburgh [d]Date | 1863 [d]Edition | Early Nimmo illustrated edition [d]Binding | Full leather, blind-tooled, raised bands, all edges gilt [d]Pages | xxiv, 496 [d]Features | Portrait frontispiece, wood-engraved plates, marbled endpapers, gauffered gilt edges, period presentation inscription dated Feb 1863 [d]Dimensions | 7.25 in H x 5.25 in W x 2 in D [d]Language | English [d]Origin | Scotland\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-pre-wrap leading-[1.7]\"\u003e[condition] The full leather binding is complete and holding, with honest wear consistent with age. The spine ends are rubbed and frayed, the corners are bumped and worn through to the board at the tips, and the front joint is cracking along the hinge with some loss to the leather at the head. The covers retain their blind-tooled Gothic panels clearly. Internally the book is sound. The all-edges-gilt block is bright and the gauffered tooling on the edges is crisp. The marbled endpapers show light age toning. A presentation inscription in ink sits at the head of the title page, dated February 1863, partially legible, reading as a gift to a named recipient from a friend. The text block is clean and tight with the expected light toning to the prelims. A well-preserved interior in a worn but stable period binding.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Austyn Marie Design","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":54512969875769,"sku":"wvs1789953748564","price":177.5,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0997\/7184\/2873\/files\/thomas-moore-poetical-works-1863-leather-gilt-edges_1.jpg?v=1789953753"},{"product_id":"montgomery-pelican-island-1828-antique-prize-binding-green-leather-book","title":"Montgomery Pelican Island 1828 Antique Prize Binding Green Leather Book","description":"\u003cp class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal\"\u003eThe front board tells you everything before you even open it: \u003cem\u003ePresented to Lucy Partridge, a reward for improvement in English Composition, Lombard House School 1827.\u003c\/em\u003e Gilt lettering pressed into green morocco, framed by an elaborate acanthus border, on a book given to a schoolgirl nearly two hundred years ago and somehow still holding together. James Montgomery's \u003cem\u003eThe Pelican Island\u003c\/em\u003e was the kind of poetry awarded to students who showed genuine promise in the 1820s, serious religious verse inspired by Captain Flinders's accounts of pelicans nesting on uncharted Pacific islands, and Montgomery was considered a major literary figure in his day. The spine is dark maroon morocco with five raised bands, each compartment densely gilt-tooled, and the marbled endpapers inside carry the full cobblestone pattern in blue, green, and yellow. A piece of English bookbinding history with a named recipient and a date.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-pre-wrap\"\u003e[d]Author | James Montgomery [d]Title | The Pelican Island and Other Poems [d]Publisher | Longman, Rees, Orme, Brown, and Green [d]Date | 1828 [d]Edition | Second Edition [d]Binding | Full green and maroon morocco prize binding, gilt-tooled boards and spine, five raised bands [d]Dimensions | 6.75 in H x 4 in W x 1 in D [d]Provenance | Presented to Lucy Partridge, Lombard House School, 1827 [d]Language | English [d]Origin | United Kingdom\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-pre-wrap\"\u003e[condition] The binding shows honest age throughout. The green morocco on both boards carries surface scuffing, crazing, and light soiling consistent with nearly two centuries of handling. The gilt tooling on the boards remains largely legible and present, with some loss and wear to the finer detail work, particularly toward the corners. The spine gilt-tooling is well-preserved and the raised bands are intact. The marbled endpapers are sound. The text block is clean and the paper remains white and unbrowned with no significant foxing visible. The binding is structurally sound. Offered as a good example of a named English prize binding in worn but honest condition.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Austyn Marie Design","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":54512973119801,"sku":"vkd1789953763437","price":154.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0997\/7184\/2873\/files\/montgomery-pelican-island-1828-antique-prize-binding-green-leather-book_1.jpg?v=1789953769"}],"url":"https:\/\/petfirstaidkit.shop\/collections\/antiquarian-books.oembed?page=2","provider":"My Store","version":"1.0","type":"link"}