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

London: William Heinemann, 1912. No. 1,035 of 1,450 Copies SIGNED by Rackham. 280 x 222 mm. (11 x 8 3/4"). xxix, [1], 223, [1] pp.A New Translation by V. S. Vernon Jones. Introduction by G. K. Chesterton. VERY ATTRACTIVE GREEN CRUSHED MOROCCO, GILT, BY BAYTUN-RIVIERE (stamp-signed on rear turn-in), covers bordered by gilt fillet, front cover with gilt ornament replicating the title page vignette, raised bands, spine compartments with gilt fillet frame, gilt lettering, gilt-ruled turn-ins, marbled endpapers all edges gilt. With 20 full-page black and white illustrations, numerous illustrations in the text, and 13 COLOR PLATES, as called for, each mounted on heavy brown stock and protected by lettered tissue guard. Printed on Large Paper. Hudson, p. 169; Latimore and Haskell, pp. 38-39. ◆Front cover with one-inch irregularity in leather (scarcely noticeable and apparently part of the original skin), faint browning or very light foxing to pages adjacent to (acidic) stock used for plate mounts, a few… Read More

London: George G. Harrap & Co, 1935. No. 36 OF 460 COPIES SIGNED BY THE ILLUSTRATOR, 450 of which were for sale. 272 x 197 mm. (10 5/8 x 7 3/4"). 317, [1] pp. Publisher's special binding of gilt-decorated vellum over boards, top edge gilt, other edges untrimmed and about one-third UNOPENED. In the original (somewhat scuffed and worn) blue paperboard slipcase with paper title label to spine. Half title and title vignettes in gold, 11 illustrations in the text, and 29 plates (12 in color and mounted) by Arthur Rackham. Latimore & Haskell, pp. 72-73; Houfe, p. 424; Hudson, p. 172. ◆One corner rather bumped, otherwise A LOVELY COPY--clean, fresh, and bright internally, in a binding remarkably free of the soiling and splaying that usually affects vellum books like this one. While Rackham did illustrations for a great many books, Houfe observes that he concentrated "particularly [on] those of a mystical, magic, or legendary background," a fact that makes his work on Poe's "Tales of Mystery and… Read More

East Aurora, New York: The Roycrofters, 1908. ONE OF 600 COPIES. 213 x 162 mm. (8 3/8 x 6 1/2"). 157, [3] pp. ATTRACTIVE ETCHED LEATHER BINDING, unsigned but likely by the Roycroft Bindery, upper cover with curving stalks of wheat and titling, raised bands, compartments also with titling, all of the lettering in the distinctive Roycroft style designed by Dard Hunter. With frontispiece portrait of Alice Hubbard by Jules Gaspard; title page, initials, and ornaments designed by Dard Hunter. Rear flyleaf with a (binding?) ticket engraved with decorative frame and the Roycroft insignia, the number "30" written within it in pencil. ◆Light offsetting from ribbon on preface opening, otherwise in virtually mint condition with only the most trivial imperfections. This manifesto on the equality of women and men and the necessity of their working together as equals was written by the wife of Roycroft founder Elbert Hubbard, and produced by that Arts & Crafts community. Alice Moore Hubbard (1861-1915) was… Read More