Search Results: Titles starting with Q from Thorn Books

Londini: C. Bathurst, W. Strahan, et al., 1783. Hardcover. Good. Editio Decima Quarta. 8vo. (20),631,(125)pp. Contemporary calf; spine in six compartments with raised bands, red leather lettering label, gilt. Title page in red and black. Hinges, corners and edges nicely repaired; leather and lettering label, including gilt, rubbed;some contemporary notes; some staining; else a good copy. Includes the Vita Horatii cum Dacerii Notis, ejusdem Chronologia Horatiana, & Praefatio De Satira Romana. ESTC N21945.

London: John Pine [Iohannes Pine], 1733. First edition. Hardcover. Near fine. Two volumes. Contemporary full crimson leather, intricately tooled in a 'cottage' design on all boards. Sometime rebacked in matching leather. The reback is itself a work of art: The spines are in 6 compartments, separated by raised bands tooled in gilt. The second compartments contain the title bordered in simple gilt lines; the third contain the volume numbers surrounded by intricate gilt corners; and the remaining compartments are filled with gilt tooling in repeating designs and echoing the 18th century board designs. Original marbled endpapers. Gilt rolls along edges and inner dentelles. The text is entirely engraved and complemented by engraved initials, head and tail pieces, text illustrations and full page frontispieces. First issue, with the misprint on p. 108 of Vol. II. Light wear to boards. A fine and handsome copy of a fine and handsome edition. ESYC T46226.

London: P. H. Lee Warner, Medici Society, 1910. Limited edition. Hardcover. Near fine. 8vo. 290.(2)pp. Finely printed letterpress at the Clarendon Press. Initials in blue. One of 1015 copies. This copy bound by Bumpus of Oxford in full brown morocco, the spine in six compartments, gilt, the boards tooled in blind and gilt lines with gilt florals at the corners. Gilt inner dentelles in the same design. All edges gilt. Upper hinge rubbed else a fine copy. In Latin. .

WIltshire: Libanus Press, 1987. Limited edition. Hardcover. Fine. Thin 8vo. (12)pp. Finely printed on dampened Amatruda paper in an edition of 475 copies. Wood engravings by Phillida Gili. In an artist binding of brown morocco spine, handmade paper boards and with an oval on the upper board of puckered morocco with the title in gilt, now changed to 'Que Desiderio'. While not signed, the binding is almost certainly by Bill Denny of Tucson. A fine copy. Housed in a curious two-walled tray of brown paper, a leather label with the title in gilt on one wall, and the whole slipping neatly into a similarly covered slipcase. .