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Published by Longmans, Green, Reader & Dyer, London, 1865
Seller: CHARLES BOSSOM, Ely, CAMBS, United Kingdom
Hard Cover. Condition: Very Good. Numerous Engravings. Signed Binding By John Leighton (illustrator). Third Edition. SIGNED BINDING BY JOHN LEIGHTON. Binding signed JL (i.e. John Leighton). Red decorated cloth with decorations in gilt, red and black slightly rubbed to edges particularly top of the spine. Gilt to all edges. . Frontis engraved plate. Decorated title page. Numerous Engravings. xvi, 242 pages clean and tight. the whole translated and edited, with additions, by Richard Pigot. Plates engraved by Thomas Bolton, Dalziel, De Wilde, Edmund Evans, W.T. Green, Horace Harral, Mason Jackson, Henry Leighton, [Frederick James?] Smythe [i.e. Smyth], Joseph Swain, William Luson Thomas, and Josiah Wood Whimper; after designs by John Leighton. Contributors Farlie, Robert. Size: 4to.
Published by Longmans, Green, Reader, and Dyer, Paternoster Row,, London:, 1866
Seller: Zephyr Used & Rare Books, Vancouver, WA, U.S.A.
First Edition
Thick 4to. xii, [2], 239, [1] pp. Woodcut-engraved & illustrated title in red & black, illust. half-title in red & black, red & black frontisp., many leaves printed in blue, red, yellow, or green, woodcut-engraved plates, historiated initials, head- and tail-pieces, woodcut borders. Contemporary full red morocco with gilt ornamented designs on front & back cover, gilt decorated spine, raised bands, marbled endpapers, t.e.g. (very minor rubbing at hinges, minor rubbing to corners, very slight tidemark to fore-edge of first couple leaves), still a NF copy, bound by Riviere, w/ their stamp on lower fore-edge of inner ruled dentelle on front pastedown. First edition of this lavish Victorian work celebrating the life span of man in the 12 months of a calendar year, beginning with the infant in January, the schoolboy in February, the apprentice in March, as well as the soldier in June, the philosopher and statesmen in September, and more. Pigot has drawn upon the verse of Bacon, Cicero, Carlyle, Caxton, Chaucer, Dickens, Dryden, Emerson, Goethe, Martial, Shakespeare, Sallust, and Virgil.
London, Longman, Green, Longman, and Roberts, 1860, lg in-8°, 26.5 x 18 cm, frontispiece, xvi + 239 pp, ca 200 woodcut engravings, all pages with 4 aphorisms between fillets in the margins, title page in two colors, maroon leather, some slight wear at corners, raised spine, gilt title, tooled front, marbled endpapers, gilt edges. Fine copy. Jacob Cats, 1577-1660, was a Dutch poet. Robert Farlie, Scottish, published emblems in 1638. John Leighton, 1822-1912, was an English illustrator and publisher. Richard Pigot later published another work on emblems.