Search Results: Special Bindings from Ariadne Books

London: Mrs George Cornwallis-West, 1901. Hardback. 247pp plus plates. The cover of this issue of the Anglo-Saxon Review is modelled on Alessandro Piccolomini's work, "Della Institione Morale libri XII.", printed at Venice in 1560. Red leather with detailed gilt arabesques to both boards. Five compartment spine with gilt titles. Top edge gilt. Seven illustrations (including frontispiece) with tissue guards. Decorated initials to chapters. Contributors to this edition include: Frederick Greenwood, W. H. Mallock, Wilfrid Meynell, Edmund Gosse, George Bernard Shaw, Winston S. Churchill etc Book in very good condition. Corners and edges a little rubbed. Some rubbing and wear to extremities of spine, which is also beginning to crack at the upper and lower areas of its hinges. Virtually free of spotting though there is some toning to endpapers. A heavy book but no additional shipping costs to UK post codes. Overseas buyers please ask for shipping quote.

London: John Lane, 1899. First edition. Hardback. 256pp plus plates. The cover of this issue of the Anglo-Saxon Review is modelled on Raderus' "Bavaria Pia" printed at Munich in 1628 and bound for Charles I., although it bears none of his special stamps. Green leather with detailed gilt floral arabesques to both boards around a Royal armorial ornament. Six compartment spine with gilt titles. Top edge gilt. Six illustrations (including frontispiece) with tissue guards. Decorated initials to chapters. Contributors to this edition include: Stephen Crane, David Hannay, Laurence Alma Tadema, Edmund Gosse, H. de Vere Stacpoole, and Sidney Low etc. Book in good condition. Corners and edges rubbed. Some rubbing and scuffing to spine & its extremities, which is also cracking at its front hinge. Virtually free of spotting. Stamp of Gloucester County Library to upper edge of front pastedown but no other traces of library ownership. A heavy book but no additional shipping costs to UK post… Read More

Bielefeld & Leipzig: Velhagen & Klasings, 1895. Hardback. Bound in three matching volumes. Volume I: vi, 1 - 352pp. Heft 1 Sept. 1895, Heft 2 Oct. 1895 & Heft 3 Nov. 1895. Volume II: vi, 1 - 352pp. Heft 1 Sept. 1896, Heft 2 Oct. 1896 & Heft 3 Nov. 1896. Volume III: 353 - 704pp. Heft 4 Dec. 1896, Heft 5 Jan 1897 & Heft 6 Feb. 1897. Matching half morocco binding by Kerr & Richardson, Glasgow. Tan leather with contrasting title labels to six-panel spines, gilt titles etc. Marbled paper to boards. All edges marbled. Cultural monthly. Illustrated in black & white and in colour. All text in German. Fairly even wear to all three volumes. A little rubbing to extremities and some slight cracking to leather at hinges. Slight darkening to leather of spines. All bindings very secure and firm. Occasional light soil mark. Hardly any evidence of spotting at all. Faint tanning to page edges. Very attractive volumes with lovely marbling to boards and edges. The three volumes together are… Read More

London: J. and R. Tonson. Hardback. Fair/No dust jacket.. Leather bound volume. Title page states 'Printed for J. and R. Tonson in the Strand. MDCCLXV' otherwise undated. Book in fair condition. Binding sound but leather cracking at hinges. Boards a little scuffed. Corners bumped. Ink inscription on front paste down and ffep with date 1810. The ffep is worn and has some loss. Verso of ffep has lengthy hand written text in what appears to be the same hand as the inscription on recto. Engraving on frontispiece. Both frontispiece and title page have some loss to bottom corner. Verso of title page has a column of hand written accounts. An interesting volume.