Search Results: Titles starting with P from Liber Antiquus

Kempten: Per Rudolphum Dreherr, 1673. SOLE EDITION. Hardcover. Fine. Bound in contemporary stiff vellum (small repairs to foot of the spine, re-cased, endpapers renewed.) Internally, this copy is in fine condition with only minor faults as follows: half-title soiled, small wormholes in first four lvs., a peppering of small wormholes to final four index lvs. and final blank leaf. Marginal hole (not affecting text) to leaf B3, margins of portrait leaf foxed and with light stain at foot. The volume was re-cased, probably to remove a second, slim work (judging by the size of the overlapping vellum fore-edges of the binding.) Provenance: Engraved armorial bookplate of Augustin Erath (1648-1719), German Augustinian Canon, theologian, translator. The "Phonurgia" is illustrated with an added engraved allegorical title by Georg Andreas Wolfgang (1631-1716) after Felix Cheurier, an engraved title vignette, an engraved portrait of Emperor Leopold I by Wolfgang after Franz Herman, two engraved plates, seventeen… Read More

London: Printed for J. Clarke at the Golden Ball in Duck-Lane, and J. Brotherton at the Bible next the Fleece-Tavern in Cornhill, 1728. Hardcover. Fine. Bound in contemporary black morocco (rebacked, corners discreetly repaired, endpapers renewed), the boards tooled in panels with attractive ornaments. The contents are in fine condition with the occasional minor stain and a few trivial faults: tiny hole in leaf F1, pale dampstain to lvs. K3-5, a slightly darker one to leaf L1; two small holes and alight stain to leaf N8. A few small stains to the engraved frontispiece of Bunyan dreaming. Pt. II has its own title page, dated 1727. A fine copy of this illustrated edition of Bunyan's "The Pilgrim's Progress", one of the most famous English allegories and the Puritan conversion narrative par excellence. In response to the proliferation of poorly-printed editions of the book, the publishers of this edition aspired to present the work "in a handsome manner", on heavy paper and illustrated with new… Read More