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

London: Hurst and Blackett, Limited, 1899. 190 x 125mm. (7 1/2 x 5"). xii, 128 pp.; 1 p.l. (volume II title page handwritten in ink), 129-312 pp. One volume expanded to two.. Fine crimson crushed morocco by the Guild of Women Binders (stamp-signed in gilt on front pastedown), raised bands, stylized gilt lettering on spines, all edges gilt. With five portraits, as called for, and EXTRA-ILLUSTRATED WITH 264 PLATES, 31 of these colored, 12 folding, about half of them scenes or views, the rest portraits. Also containing the bookplate of David Garrick (mounted on card at p. 10); an autograph letter, signed, from George Smart; an invoice or accounting signed by Eliza Matthews; and five other autographs mounted on heavy stock. ◆Occasional trivial offsetting from inserted plates, but A VERY FINE COPY, clean and fresh internally, in unworn bindings. Richly extra-illustrated with depictions of the people, places, and events discussed in the text, this joint biography of brothers James and Horace Smith was… Read More

[Flensburg, ca. 1925]. 325 x 240 mm. (12 7/8 x 9 1/2"). 4 p.l. (first two blank), 4 leaves, 144 pp., [4] leaves (last blank). Single column, 31 lines in a fine calligraphic hand. FLAMBOYANT DEEP RED MOROCCO, ELABORATELY INLAID AND GILT, BY W. A. PETERSEN (stamp-signed on rear turn-in), covers framed by inlaid white morocco strip tooled with gilt triangles enclosing sides in a bead-and-lozenge pattern of gilt-outlined mandorlas containing a red cross on a blue background alternating with an inlaid white lozenge, upper cover with brass and enamel cornerpieces featuring the symbols of the four Evangelists, each of these set with a colored glass gem, central panel divided into four compartments, each containing a small star tool, central brass and enamel medallion with a six-pointed star emblazoned with a sun and a red enamel "Y," two straps with brass and enamel clasps marked with Alpha and Omega, lower cover with brass cornerpieces, raised bands, spine with gilt-ruled compartments, turn-ins tooled… Read More

[New York: Johnstone & Van Norden], March 5583 [1823]. FIRST EDITION. 252 x 148 mm. (10 x 5 7/8"). 18 pp. Unbound as issued, UNCUT AND UNOPENED sheets held together by a single stitch. ◆A couple of small brown stains affecting first four leaves, minor foxing, final leaf with small triangle missing from fore-edge margin, short tear at gutter margin (touching text but no loss), and four small holes in the lower third (no loss), fore edges a little frayed, but a very good, never-opened copy of an extremely fragile item. This is an unread copy of the first issue of the first Jewish periodical to be printed in the United States, a work aimed at counteracting the efforts of a missionary society to convert Jews to Christianity--and a remarkable survival, given its fragility. Editor (and author of much of the text) Solomon Henry Jackson (d. 1847) emigrated from England to Pennsylvania before settling in New York City in the 1820s. There, he established a press that used both Hebrew and English fonts to… Read More

Forward by Rabbi Avraham Soltes. Light blue cloth portfolio, upper cover with gilt titling, in a matching clamshell box with gilt titling on cover and spine. WITH 11 COLOR LITHOGRAPHS, titled, numbered, and SIGNED BY CHAIM GROSS. Text printed in red and black. ◆In mint condition.In this jubilant exploration of faith and community, prominent Jewish artist and émigré Chaim Gross (1902-91) presents a joyful mix of animated figures, bright colors, and decorative lettering in a series of lithographs illustrating the 10 holiest days of the Jewish calendar. Displaced from his small village in the Carpathian Mountains during the First World War, Gross in 1921 immigrated to America, where he studied at the Beaux-Arts Institute of Design in New York. He specialized in sculpture and printmaking, employing the method of direct carving he helped pioneer and for which he would predominantly be known. Following the Second World War, Gross became increasingly interested in Jewish subjects, and travelled to Israel… Read More

London: Bowdery and Kerby; Edinburgh: Blackwood, 1844. First Edition in English. 244 x 152 mm. (9 1/2 x 6"). 2 p.l., xii, 349 pp. Translated by Robert Anstruther. QUITE PRETTY NAVY BLUE CRUSHED MOROCCO BY TAFFIN (stamp-signed on front turn-in), covers with a net of oval fillets, floral ornaments at the points where lines intersect, raised bands, spine gilt in similar design, gilt titling, gilt-ruled turn-ins, royal blue silk endleaves, top edge gilt. With two frontispiece portraits of the author, one on heavy stock and one on chine, and nine etchings on chine, illustrating each of the book's nine episodes. WITH AN AUTOGRAPH LETTER SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR tipped in at front. ◆Spine sunned to a dark blue-green, joints and extremities with just a hint of rubbing, but the binding still lustrous and a fine copy internally, clean, fresh, and bright, with lovely wide-margined paper. In an elegant Parisian binding, this is the first appearance in English of Lamartine's 1836 epic poem relating the story of a… Read More

New York: Leonard Scott Publication Co, 1929. No. 56 OF 300 COPIES. 260 x 182 mm. (10 1/8 x 7 1/8"). XIV, [2], 167, [1] pp. LOVELY BLUE MOROCCO, GILT, BY STIKEMAN & CO. (stamp-signed in gilt on rear turn-in), covers with multiple straight and decorative rules, decorative cornerpieces, raised bands, compartments with central floral motif surrounded by foliate frame and double rules, gilt lettering, gilt ruled turn-ins, light blue watered silk pastedowns and endleaves, top edge gilt, others untrimmed. Housed in a light blue cloth slipcase. With frontispiece and 23 plates, with original printed tissue guards. SIGNED by Markle on the limitations page, with an inscription (probably in a secretarial hand): To Karrick M. Castle / With my compliments. ◆Spine very lightly sunned, hint of rubbing to corners, but in very fine condition inside and out. This is a finely printed and beautifully bound biography of John Markle (1858-1953), one of the nation's most accomplished and affluent engineers and coal… Read More

London: Metheun & Co, 1925. FIRST EDITION. 216 x 140 mm. (8 1/2 x 5 1/2"). vii, [i], 246 pp. SUPERB CONTEMPORARY DEEP BLUE MOROCCO BY SANGORSKI & SUTCLIFFE FOR ASPREY, WITH MORE THAN 60 INLAYS, front cover with center medallion featuring inlaid teal blue crossed "J's," surrounded by gilt wreath and crown as well as inlaid pink flowers, lovely gilt floral sprays with more inlaid pink flowers in corners of both covers, raised bands, spine beautifully gilt and inlaid in the same floral vine pattern, DOUBLURES OF CRIMSON MOROCCO with inlaid blue flowers in corners, as well as an intricate series of patterned rules against deep blue morocco border, FRONT DOUBLURE WITH FINE INSET HAND-PAINTED IVORY MINIATURE OF JOSEPHINE, watered silk free end papers, gilt edges. In a slightly scuffed but sturdy and attractive morocco-backed plush-lined folding cloth box, gilt titling on spine. With 12 illustrations (all photographs of portraits), as called for. ◆A CHOICE BINDING IN IMMACULATE CONDITION. Our sumptuous… Read More

London: Printed for W. Strahan and T. Cadell, 1775. FIRST EDITION, First State. 215 x 133 mm. (8 1/2 x 5 1/4"). 1 p.l., 384 pp., 1 leaf (errata, with 11 items on 12 lines), with cancels D8 and *U4, the latter in first state with incorrect page number. Pleasing calf by Riviere & Son (stamp-signed on verso of front free endpaper), covers onlaid with tree calf panels bordered by gilt floral roll, raised bands, spine gilt in compartments with central spray of flowers and pomegranate within a lozenge of small tools, leafy sprig at corners, brown morocco label, gilt-rolled turn-ins, marbled endpapers, all edges gilt. Corrections for errors on p. 296 and 292 added to errata in pencil. Accompanied by an engraving of "Dr. Sam'l Johnson's Introduction to a Highland Hut" taken from "The Gentleman's Magazine," XLV, pp. 129-30 (1775), in which it was printed with an excerpt from this work. Courtney & Smith, p. 122; Fleeman 75.1J/1a; Rothschild 1256; Tinker 1357. ◆Leaves a little yellowed (due to paper… Read More

Eger, Hungary: n.p., 1900. 178 x 114 mm. (7 x 4 1/2"). 584 pp. Early 20th century celluloid resembling carved ivory, with two cameos on the upper cover, cutouts revealing red velvet underneath, gold and silver accents and edges lined with gold, three dangling gold chains with small medallions, smooth spine, gold clasp, all edges gilt. Engraved frontispiece portrait with decorated border printed in blue ink, 14 engraved illustrations within the text representing the Stations of the Cross. Ownership stamp on front pastedown reads "Roth C. Julius, Phillipsburg, New Jersey." ◆A touch of mild scuffing to the celluloid, negligible, light browning to edges of leaves, otherwise IN VERY FINE CONDITION inside and out. Straddling the line between craft and kitsch, this modest prayer book has been elevated to an entirely different level with the addition of an exuberant binding meant to imitate the look of high-end materials. It is primarily made of celluloid, a hard plastic first developed in the 1870's as… Read More