Samblanx Weckesser (6 results)

Condition: New.

Condition: New. KlappentextrnrnThis scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the original. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have.

SAMBLANX & WECKESSER (illustrator). . La Princesse de Cleves. Preface par Anatole France. Un Portrait et Douze Compositions de Jules Garnier. Graves par A. Lamotte. Paris: Librairie L. Conquet, 1889. Full Description: LA FAYETTE, Marie-Madeleine Pioche de la Vergne. SAMBLANX & WECKESSER, [binder]. La Princesse de Cleves. Preface par Anatole France. Un Portrait et Douze Compositions de Jules Garnier. Graves par A. Lamotte. Paris: Librairie L. Conquet, 1889. Limited edition, one of 500 copies, this being number 449. Numbered and initialed by the publisher. Four parts in one octavo volume (8 1/16 x 5 3/8 inches; 205 x 135 mm). xxviii, 344, [1, table], [1, blank] pp. With half-title. With engraved frontispiece portrait, four engraved plates and four engraved head and tail piece vignettes for the beginning and end of each part. Original wrappers bound in. Beautifully bound by Belgian bookbinders Samblanx and Wexkesser in full brown borocco. Boards elaborately ruled and stamped in gilt in leaf motifs. With a gilt central wreath and initial device. Spine stamped and lettered in gilt. Board edges double ruled in gilt. Gilt dentelles. Marbled endpaper. All edges gilt. Original front and back wrapper bounds in. Previous owner's bookplate on front free endpaper. An about fine, unread copy. Housed in a marbled slipcase. Commonly cited as the first French novel (as opposed to picaresques and fables), La Princesse de Cleves is among the most scrupulously accurate historical fictions in literature. It is also arguably the first historical novel ever written and one of the earliest novels in any language. "In La Princesse de Cleves, will and duty triumph over passion; but the moral is melancholy - that to do one's duty does not necessarily bring happiness. Mme de la Fayette may be said to have inaugurated the French novel of character, replacing the grandiloquence, incredible adventures and tedious length of Mlle de Scudery's romances by proportion, simplicity, sincerity, and an easy, sober style, without affectation or sentimentality" (Oxford Companion to French Literature). It single-handedly launched a new fiction of the vraisembable and can thus be considered one of the earliest modern psychological novels as well. HBS 69537. $1,750.

In-8 ( 215 X 135 mm ) de 354 pages, plein maroquin rouge, dos lisse doré aux petits fers avec titre doré sur cabochon, triple filet doré d'encadrement sur les plats droit et simple perlé, coupes et coiffes filetées d'or, quintuple filet doré intérieur, touts tranches dorées sur marbrure, couvertures conservées, étui ( Reliure signée de De SAMBLANX & J. WECKESSER ). EDITION ORIGINALE. Très bel exemplaire, magistralement relié. Reliure Edition-Originale Littérature.

Taschenbuch. Condition: Neu. Neuware - This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the original. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as part of our commitment for protecting, preserving, and promoting the world's literature in affordable, high quality, modern editions that are true to the original work.

FIRST EDITION. 188 x 118 mm. (7 3/8 x 4 5/8"). vii, [1], 150 pp., [1] leaf (ads). SUPERB NAVY BLUE CRUSHED MOROCCO, GILT AND INLAID, BY DE SAMBLANX-WECKESSER (stamp-signed on front turn-in), covers with intricate gilt frame of trumpet vines bearing 36 inlaid scarlet flowers and buds, raised bands, spine gilt in compartments with inlaid trumpet flower at center, gilt titling, turn-ins framed with gilt vine, navy blue moiré silk endleaves, marbled flyleaves, all edges gilt. In a (slightly worn) marbled paper slipcase. Title page with engraving of a putto composing verses. Front flyleaves with bookplates of Edwin Holden (dated 1894) and John Whipple Frothingham. Wise, Ashley Cat. III, 52; Thomson, p. 76. A hint of rubbing to front joint, occasional mild browning (due to paper quality), but A FINE COPY, clean and fresh internally, and in a lustrous binding. In a lovely Art Nouveau binding by a Belle Époque master, this is a collection of poems assembled by essayist Charles Lamb (1775-1834) to launch the publishing career of his friend and future son-in-law, Edward Moxon (1801-58), to whom he dedicated the work. Composed of rather slight verses composed for the amusement of Lamb's friends and of more substantial works previously printed in periodicals, this first book bearing Moxon's imprint did well enough to attract the business of other prestigious poets, many of them friends of Lamb. Moxon, who married Lamb's adopted daughter Emma Isola in 1833, went on to print the works of Wordsworth, Shelley, Tennyson, and other luminaries of the Victorian era. The graceful binding is by Belgian master craftsman Charles de Samblancx [or Samblanx] (1855-1943), who began his binding career at age 11, as an apprentice to Coppens. He eventually established his own firm (though from 1889-1909 his gilder Jacques Weckesser was in partnership with him). His binding career extended over several decades, and he worked in a variety of period styles, sensitively reproducing the bindings of previous centuries. His work, often involving great complexity of design, is invariably executed with the highest degree of skill. Our copy was once owned by American bibliophile and Grolier Club president Edwin Holden (1861-1906).