Sutcliffe Edward (25 results)
- Softcover
Seller: BookOrders, Russell, IA, U.S.A.BookOrders
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Soft Cover. Condition: Very Good. Ex-library with the usual features. Library label on front cover. The interior is clean and tight. Binding is good. Cover shows light wear. Ex-Library.
Published by Batsford/Watson-Guptil, 1970
- Hardcover
Seller: M H Harrington, Boston, MA, U.S.A.M H Harrington
Contact seller5-star sellerHardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. Hardcover book, 8" x 8", text is fine, dust wrapper has repaired closed tear and is very good; 64 pages with 54 half-tones and 19 line illustrations, some color also. Book.
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Published by Stevens & Sons, 1964
- Softcover
Seller: Shore Books, London, United KingdomShore Books
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Add to basketSoft cover. Condition: Very Good. 85 pages. (SL#10).
- Hardcover
- First Edition
Seller: Yare Books, Great Yarmouth, United KingdomYare Books
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Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. First Edition. Ex Library.
Published by Batsford/Watson-Guptil, New York, 1970
- Hardcover
Seller: Smith Family Bookstore Downtown, Eugene, OR, U.S.A.Smith Family Bookstore Downtown
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Add to basketHardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. text clean and unmarked. binding tight. boards have very light wear. edges of pages have very light wear. mylar-covered dust jacket is clipped, has toning and some light wear along edges.
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Miscellany One With Line Drawings and Colour Plates
Blishen, Edward (Ed) ; Sutcliffe, Rosemary. ; Avery, Gillian. & Grice, F Et Al
Published by London; OUP; 1964, London, 1964
- Hardcover
- First Edition
Seller: Peakirk Books, Heather Lawrence PBFA, Sheringham, United KingdomPeakirk Books, Heather Lawrence PBFA
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Add to basketHardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good-. First Edition Thus. H/b; d/w; vg/vg; - large 8vo; 202pp; d/w slightly worn at top of spine; not price clipped includes authors: Sutcliffe, R. ; Avery, G. & Grice, F. ; Large 8vo 9" - 10" tall. Illustrated by Charles Keeping Et Al (illustrator).
Published by Constable, Edinburgh. 1955., 1955
- Hardcover
Seller: Sainsbury's Books Pty. Ltd., Camberwell, VIC, AustraliaSainsbury's Books Pty. Ltd.
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Add to basket8vo, 144pp, black and white illustrations. A fair hardback copy with surface damage to boards, especially spine. Foxing to top edge.
Published by R.W. Simpson & Co. Ltd., 1948
- Hardcover
Seller: Stella & Rose's Books, PBFA, Tintern, MON, United KingdomStella & Rose's Books, PBFA
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Add to basketHardback. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. 2nd 1948. Very good condition with no wrapper. Second Edition. The life of the late Richard Sutcliffe, and of his stuggles, and triumphs, and setbacks. Red cloth boards, dark red titles to front, no title to spine. B/w plates. Spine & front vertical board edge faded. Edge of front cover… is bumped. Marks to rear board. 'Copyright reserved' stamp to endpapers. Rear joint just starting to crack. Contents clean and tight. Packaged with care and promptly dispatched.
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Published by Richmond: R W Simpson & Co 2nd enlarged edition, 1948
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Seller: John Turton, Crook, United KingdomJohn Turton
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Add to basket4to. 95pp, portrait frontis, plates, text figures. Original brown grained-cloth lettered in red. Cloth lightly soiled.
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Published by PRESSES D'AUJOURD'HUI, 1965
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- Magazine / Periodical
Condition: Used - Near fine
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Add to basketCouverture souple. Condition: bon. R110039735: DECEMBRE 1965. In-12. Broché. Bon état, Couv. convenable, Dos satisfaisant, Intérieur frais. Paginé de 961 à 1152. . . . Classification Dewey : 70.49-Presse illustrée, magazines, revues.
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Language: English
Published by Siegle, Hill & Co. / David McKay, London / Philadelphia, 1911
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- Signed
Seller: Books & Bidders, Cleveland, OH, U.S.A.Books & Bidders
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Add to basketVellum. Condition: Near Fine. Limited Edition. [Binding]. Original publisher's full vellum, brown morocco title label, gilt embossed floral design on spine and pictorial peacock on front board, top edge gilt, deckle edge, color pictorial endpapers, (13.5 x 10.25 inches). N.D. [1911]. Limited Edition, number 209 of 550 copies pri…nted on handmade paper and signed by the publisher, Siegle Hill. Unpaginated; 12 full-page color illustrations. The calligraphic text is printed in red and black, decorative initials in red and gold. "Reproduced from a calligraphic manuscript written and illuminated by Sangorski & Sutcliffe." A collection of quatrains composed in the eleventh century by Persian poet and philosopher Omar Khayyam, it is among the most popular poems of all time. An excellent example showing slight expected bowing to vellum boards, internally clean and bright. F. Sangorski & G. Sutcliffe (illustrator). Signed by Author(s).
Published by T.and A. Constable Ltd, Edinburgh, 1955
- Hardcover
Seller: Westwood Books, Cramlington, United KingdomWestwood Books
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Add to basketHardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. 1955. T.and A. Constable, Edinburgh, 1955. Hard cover. Book condition : Very good to near fine. Very clean text and photographs.Appears little read. Previous owners bookplate inside cover. Book will be sent by UK postal service. Bookseller Inventory #009571. N/A (illustrator). N/A.
Published by Leeds University Marxist Society, Leeds, 1963
- Softcover
- First Edition
Seller: Between the Covers-Rare Books, Inc. ABAA, Gloucester City, NJ, U.S.A.Between the Covers-Rare Books, Inc. ABAA
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Add to basketSoftcover. Condition: Near Fine. Volume 1, No. 4. Slim small quarto. 24pp. Light wear, near fine. Features the poem "Burying" by Jon Silkin and the essays "The Struggle Against Unemployment" by Brian Davis, "The Treachery of Stalinism in Indo China" by Edward Wilson, "An Analysis of Indecision" by Roy Sutcliffe, and an Editorial… and "CONTROVERSY From a Glasgow Engineering Worker," both unattributed.
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Published by Privately printed by T. and A. Constable Printers to the University of Edingburgh, (Edinburgh), 1955
- Hardcover
- Signed
Seller: BIBLIOPE by Calvello Books, Oakland, CA, U.S.A.BIBLIOPE by Calvello Books
Contact seller4-star sellerHardcover. Condition: Fine. Quarto in black cloth with gilt titles; frontis.; x, 142, [3]pp; b&w plates and illus. Presentation copy: Presented to one Colemans (sp?) in 1966. Inscribed and signed by Gerald Sutcliffe. "Richard Sutcliffe (1849-1930) was an Irish mining engineer and inventor, active in England. He was born on a far…m in Tipperary and worked at coal mines in Ireland between 1857 and 1885. He moved to Barnsley, England in August 1885. In 1892 he invented the world's first coal cutting machine. In 1905 he invented the world's first underground conveyor belt. This invention revolutionized the mining industry by greatly reducing the amount of labour needed to transport coal. His company, Richard Sutcliffe Ltd., based in Horbury near Wakefield pioneered the manufacture of conveyor belts used in the mining and assembly line industries. His company devised many other types of mining equipment."?wiki. / Mining. engineerings, inventions, machinery. Conveying machinery. Convoyeurs. conveyors. Conveying machinery. Sutcliffe, Richard, 1849-1930. Lives on inventors, engineers. Business History. Fine with faintest signs of external wear. No jacket, presumably as issued. See photos.
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Published by AFS, 1987
Seller: Sportspages, Farnham, United KingdomSportspages
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Add to basketA fifty year history of the F.A. which includes rare photographs of every Championship-winning team and Second Division Championship-winning team since the inception of the Football League in 1882. Paperback. Facsimile edition, published by The Association of Football Statisticians. 4to. 300pp. Good condition.
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Published by Amalgamated Society of Engineers, (New York, 1894
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Seller: Austin's Antiquarian Books, Wilmington, VT, U.S.A.Austin's Antiquarian Books
Contact seller5-star sellerHardcover. Condition: Good +. Unrecorded. large octavo; pp; (ii), 80; illustrated with black and white mechanical engravings; green pebbled cloth lettered in gilt; paste-downs contain full page ads, front patterned endpaper; water stain at top edge of upper and lower boards else very good. water stain at top edge of upper and lo…wer boards else very good. One half the book is consumed with advertisements, many illustrated, ads appear on the versos while pertinent text concerning the Society or Engineering appears on the rectos so that when opened an ad appears at the left and text to the right. The vast majority of ads are from New York, Boston, Philadelphia and Northeast based companies. On page 31 is the announcement of the Society?s 43rd Annual Entertainment that will be held in New York on Wednesday Evening, February 21st, 1894. OCLC locates nothing of the Society with this title and date.
[ Herbert Sutcliffe, Frank Woolley, Fred Root and William Astill, England cricketers. ] Autograph Signatures ('H Sutcliffe', 'F E Woolley', 'Fred Foot', 'W. E. Astill'), with the signature of 'B W Bullock'.
Herbert Sutcliffe (1894-1978); Frank Woolley [ Frank Edward Woolley ] (1887-1978); Fred Root [ Charles Frederick Root ] (1890-1954); William Ewart Astill (1888-1948); B. W. Bullock
Published by Given at the Yorkshire v. Rest of England match the Oval London September, 1923
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Seller: Richard M. Ford Ltd, London, United KingdomRichard M. Ford Ltd
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Add to basketThe signatures of Sutcliffe and Woolley are on a 16 x 18 cm. piece of grey paper, cut from an album, those of the other three men are crowded onto an L-shaped piece of paper, laid down on the same leaf. At head of page: 'Yorkshire v. Rest of England, The Oval, Sept. 1923.' The odd man out is B. W. Bullock [ Burnett Wedlake Bullo…ck ] (1896-1954), who did not take part in the match. He played for Surrey, and was presumably around when his more illustrious colleagues were giving autographs. According to the report in The Times, the match ended in a draw.
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The Wide World Magazine, True Stories of Adventure, March [Mar.] 1926, Vol LVI, No. 335: The Seminoles of Florida / The Wild Tribes of Malaya / Tilden Dakin
Carson, Jesse C.; Henderson, J.R.; Holmes, F. Ratcliffe; Bryan, Jack; Bell, V.G.; Long, Edward E.; barker, Reginald C.; Haeseler, John A.; Anderson, W.K.; Dunn, Harry H.; Cairfield, Thomas; McLaren, Jack
Published by The International News Company, New York, 1926
- Softcover
- First Edition
Seller: RareNonFiction, IOBA, Ladysmith, BC, CanadaRareNonFiction, IOBA
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Add to basketSingle Issue Magazine. Condition: Very Good. First Edition. Profusely illustrated with black and white photos and illustrations. Features: A Cowboy in Trouble - A tale from Indian Territory which is now part of Oklahoma; The Seminoles of Florida - An interesting photo-illustrated account of these hermits of the Florida wilds; Th…e Longest Voyage on Record - An authoritative account of the "Maria Madre", presently moored at Paysandu, Uruguay - with photos; The Way of the Wild - Photo-illustrated article by cinematographer F. Ratcliffe Holmes about his adventures filming wildlife; Filed - Until Found - The daring escape of John Kelly from the Worcester, MA jail; My First Rhino - After V.G. Bell bagged his first, he was nearly bagged by a nearby rhino; The Wild Tribes of Malaya - Edward E. Long visits unknown stone-age tribes - article with wonderful photos; "Stope Number Five East" - Grim story from the Golden Gleam Mine in Nevada; Among the "White Arabs" - Photo illustrated article on the Shawiya Berbers of Algeria; The Ju-Ju Man's Vengeance - The death of a German by hypnotism in West Africa; Painting Pictures Beneath the Sea - Well-known landscapte artist Tilden Dakin paints submarine 'seascapes' from a diving-bell of his own design; "Ginger" To the Rescue! - A story of the old 'blackbirding' days in the South Seas, when the recruiters were not always over-scrupulous as to how they obtained native labour for the plantations; An Australian Robinson Crusoe - Part II - Jack McLaren spent eight years with savages on the little-known western coast of Cape York Peninsula in Australia - with photos. 88 pages plus 20 pages of nostalgic ads. Clean and unmarked with light wear. A nice copy of this great vintage issue. Wood, Stanley, L.; Nicolson, W.C.; Tresilian, S.; De Walton, John; Eyles, D.C.; Kane, Thornton; Peddie, Tom; Sutcliffe, Norman (illustrator).
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The Wide World Magazine - True Stories of Adventure, February [Feb.] 1928, Vol. LX, No. 358: Through Arctic Seas / Among the Kazak Nomads
MacMorland, Captain J.; Middlebrook, J.; Hunter, Reginald P.; Gillingham, Donald W.; edwards, Matthew; Wilkinson, Walter; Adale, Donald; Afzal, Russell; Payne, W.; Long, Edward E.; Clarke; Charles J.L.; Jackson, Frederick G.
Published by The International News Company, New York, 1928
- Softcover
- First Edition
Seller: RareNonFiction, IOBA, Ladysmith, BC, CanadaRareNonFiction, IOBA
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Add to basketSingle Issue Magazine. Condition: Good. First Edition. Generously illustrated with black and white photos and illustrations. Features: The Hidden Bay - A member of the Cape Police investigates a series of missing boats and their crews; The Parson - A Tale of old frontier days in Marshall, Texas; A Gambling Raid in Malaya - A whi…te police officer single-handedly attempts to raid a gambling-den in the Malay States; Through Arctic Seas - Part III - The continues adventures of the Hudson Bay Company steamer Baychimo in the Western Arctic as it studies the Eskimos and wild life - with map and many nice photos; Among the Kazak Nomads - Matthew Edwards describes his time with these hardy riders of the plains, who enjoy hunting with trained eagles - including many very nice photos; On Tour With a Puppet Show - Part I - Walter Wilkinson travels through the West of England with his glorified Punch-and-Judy outfit; George's Crocodile - an amusing tale from the coast of China; "Bimbo" - Russell Afzal's dog killed a sacred monkey, was cursed, and died a mysterious death; Pat the Teacher - He drifted to a remote Australian sheep station and proved his manhood to the full; The Isle of Rip Van Winkle - A visit to the quaint and beautiful island of Banda, the "Pearl of the Moluccas" - with photos; The Romance of Pearls - An excellently photo-illustrated account of the fisheries of Ceylon, with some interesting stories concerning pearls; Across Central Africa from East to West - Part II - The continued tale of Major Jackson's year-long, 6,000 mile trip from Beira to Banana - with interesting photos. 84 pages plus 16 pages of nostalgic ads. Unmarked with average wear. A sound copy of this fascinating vintage issue. Moorsom, F.G.; Sutcliffe, Norman; Holloway, Cyril; Brock, H.M.; Holloway, Cyril; Goss, G.W.; Potts, Leonard (illustrator).
Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam Translated into English Verse by EDWARD FITZGERALD With an introduction by A.C.BENSON. Reproduced from a Manuscript. Written and illuminated by F. SANGORSKI & G. SUTCLIFFE (Peacock edition)
Omar Khayyam; Translated by Edward Fitzgerald; Illustrated by F. Sangorski & G. Sutcliffe; Preface by A. C. Benson (signed by Benson)
Published by Siegle, Hill & Co (London); Engraved & Printed by Angre & Sleigh, Ltd (Bushey, Herts), 1911
- Hardcover
Seller: Best Books And Antiques, Chandler, TX, U.S.A.Best Books And Antiques
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Add to basketHardcover. Condition: Very Good. Peacock edition published circa 1911 (no date in book). Signed by A. C. Benson (1862-1925), Fellow of Magdalene College of Cambridge at the end of his preface. Some slight foxing throughout the book. Beige / gilt leather cover has some slight shelf wear. Beautiful grape image end papers. Illustra…tions by Sangorski and Sutcliffe are stunningly magnificent. They appear to have gold foil on many of them, but they are printed color lithographs; no foil. Not sure how they achieved that effect. Unpaginated. This is not the edition that was numbered and signed by the illustrators, but it is still a highly sought after and collectible version. Top of pages are gilt. One tiny (2-3 cm) split at the spine. Also there is a gift inscription in ink dated 1929 on the first blank page. BEAUTIFUL! (BR) Shelf 69.
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RUBÁIYÁT OF OMAR KHAYYÁM: Translated Into English Verse By Edward Fitzgerald, With an Introduction By A. C. Benson, Reproduced from a Manuscript Written and Illuminated By F. Sangorski and G. Sutcliffe.
FITZGERALD, Edward (translates); illustrated by SANGORSKI, F.; SUTCLIFFE, G.
Published by London: Siegle, Hill & Co. [], 1910
- Hardcover
- First Edition
Seller: LUCIUS BOOKS (ABA, ILAB, PBFA), York, United KingdomLUCIUS BOOKS (ABA, ILAB, PBFA)
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Add to basketFirst deluxe edition. Number 80 of 550 copies, printed on handmade paper and signed by Sangorski and Sutcliffe. Publisher's original full vellum with intricate gilt decoration to the upper board and spine, titles on an brown morocco label to the spine. Top edge gilt, others untrimmed. Colour decorated endpapers. Frontispiece and… title page illuminated in full colour with ten further colour illuminations throughout the text. The calligraphic text is printed in red and black, decorative initials in red and gold. An excellent near fine copy, the binding square and firm, the vellum with a little natural patina and mild dustiness to the spine. The spine label with a couple of small chips to the right edge. The contents, with a small previous owner's bookplate to the front pastedown, and minor marks to the blank margins are otherwise clean throughout. A very attractive example of a beautiful production. Signed by Francis Sangorski and George Sutcliffe in black ink on the limitation page. Further details and images for any of the items listed are available on request. All items are catalogued by humans. Lucius Books welcomes direct contact with our customers.
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Published by Siegle, Hill & Company, London, 1910
- Hardcover
- First Edition
- Signed
Seller: Raptis Rare Books, Palm Beach, FL, U.S.A.Raptis Rare Books
Contact seller5-star sellerSigned limited first edition of this work reproduced in color from the manuscript written and illuminated by Francis Sangorski & George Sutcliffe, number 247 of 550 copies signed by the publisher. Folio, bound in publisher's full vellum, front panel elaborately stamped in gilt in a peacock motif, gilt titles and a floral motif t…o the spine, brown gilt morocco lettering label, pictorial endleaves. With twelve full-page illustrations inserted throughout. In very good condition. The Rubáiyát is one of the most popular poems of all time. A collection of quatrains composed in the eleventh century by Persian poet and philosopher Omar Khayyám, it was first published in English-language translation by Edward Fitzgerald in 1859. Since then, its melancholy tone and enigmatic philosophy of mourning the painful brevity of life while celebrating what pleasures we may find have made it an inspiration to countless people.
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Published by Preston: Football League, 1939
Seller: Sportspages, Farnham, United KingdomSportspages
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Add to basketA fifty year history of the F.A. which includes rare photographs of every Championship-winning team and Second Division Championship-winning team since the inception of the Football League in 1882. 2nd edition. 4to. 300pp. Profusely illustrated with b/w team group photographs and portraits of players and officials. Original gree…n cloth, very good. Dust-wrapper, minor edgewear with chip to head of spine and library number to spine (no library marks in book). Good condition. "An essential work of reference . this classic of football literature is eagerly sought as a collector's item" — Seddon.
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Published by Siegle, Hill & Co, London, 1910
Seller: Whitmore Rare Books, Inc. -- ABAA, ILAB, Pasadena, CA, U.S.A.Whitmore Rare Books, Inc. -- ABAA, ILAB
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Add to basketCondition: Near Fine. First trade edition. Bound in tan cloth with a lovely full gilt peacock design to the front board. A lovely, Near Fine example of the first trade edition. This edition reprints the famous Sangorski and Sutcliffe, illuminated edition, with both Sangorski and Sutcliffe signing on the limitation page. Complete… with all 12 color plates. This edition is slightly smaller than the signed, limited edition and uses a thinner paper-stock. Some inoffensive foxing throughout. Fitzgerald attributed the original work to the famed astronomer and mathematician Omar Khayyum, and this collection of quatrains rapidly became a favored text of the Pre-Raphaelites. "Like the Odyssey or the Vita Nuova [it] was once the most widely known and quoted work of Victorian poetry in the world," and its place in Western culture at the time was secured by Fitzgerald's "epigrammatic, sophisticated, often mordant verses [that] display Fitzgerald's adroitness in handling this stanza form" (Warner). Yet with rise of Modernism, the Rubaiyat fell out of style for a time, its lush and romantic orientalism considered out of step with the concerns of those who were living through a devastating World War. But the beautiful surviving copies in exceptional vellum, silk, and leather, alongside recently released critical editions, have helped draw attention back to the Rubaiyat's beauty and its role in inspiring so many monumental pieces of Victorian art and literature. Near Fine.
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Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám
SANGORSKI & SUTCLIFFE, binders; RUBÁIYÁT OF OMAR KHAYYÁM; VEDDER, Elihu, illustrator; FITZGERALD, Edward, Translator and Editor
Published by Boston: Houghton Mifflin and Company, 1894, 1894
Seller: David Brass Rare Books, Inc., Calabasas, CA, U.S.A.David Brass Rare Books, Inc.
Contact seller5-star seller"Vedder's 'Rubáiyát' set the standard for the artist-designed book in America and England." In a Superb Early Twentieth Century Inlaid Binding by Sangorski & Sutcliffe [BINDING]. SANGORSKI & SUTCLIFFE, binders. FITZGERALD, Edward, Translator and Editor. VEDDER, Elihu, Illustrator. KHAYYAM, Omar. Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám The Astr…onomer Poet of Persia. Rendered into English Verse by Edward Fitzgerald with an accompaniment of Drawings by Elihu Vedder. Boston: [Printed at the Riverside Press for] Houghton Mifflin and Company, 1894. Small quarto (8 1/4 x 6 inches; 209 x 152 mm.). 30 leaves, [1]-45, [2], [47]-61, [1, blank] pp., all printed on French-fold paper. With illustrated title, six pages of notes with decorative frames, frontispiece, and fifty plates illustrating the poem, inset with panels of text, all by Elihu Vedder. Elegantly bound by Sangorski & Sutcliffe ca. 1910 (stamp-signed on front turn-in) in full blue crushed morocco elaborately gilt and inlaid. Covers with wide, heavily stippled gilt frame inlaid with twining grape vines in brown, green, and purple morocco, spine with five raised bands, gilt pointille with similar inlaid grape vine weaving through the length of the spine, lettered in gilt in compartments. Gilt ruled board edges and wide turn-ins of blue morocco enclosing red silk liners framed by ivory morocco that is inlaid with green and brown, the turn-ins featuring very large corner ornaments of inlaid green grape leaves, red watered silk endleaves, top edge gilt. Joints expertly and invisible repaired. Original black and gold printed gray wrappers designed by Vedder bound in. Engraved bookplate of renowned collector William F. Gable, of Altoona on verso of front endpaper. A fine, fresh copy in an absolutely spectacular binding from the great house of Sangorski & Sutcliffe. Tipped onto the front flyleaf is a one-page autograph letter signed by Elihu Vedder and written to a Boston gallery owner named Doll regarding paintings the artist has and will have for sale. It is dated December 16, 1868, a time when Vedder had returned to America from his home base in Rome to persuade the reluctant (and wealthy) parents of Carrie Rosenkrans to allow him to marry their daughter. Happily, Vedder and Rosenkrans were able to wed; they honeymooned in Italy, which they made their home for the remainder of their lives. A beautifully bound copy of an important illustrated edition of FitzGerald's lush and lilting translation of the celebrated 11th century classic collection of evocative short verses, tinged with a sense of the vanity of all things. A work that appealed strongly to Victorian sensibilities, the "Rubáiyát," first printed anonymously in 1859, became immensely popular and went through a great many editions. Sangorski & Sutcliffe created a number of splendid bindings for copies of the "Rubáiyát," most famously the "Great Omar" that was lost on the Titanic. Here, they have apparently taken inspiration from a quotation in the frontispiece: "Better be jocund with the fruitful Grape / Than sadden after none or bitter Fruit." According to the Smithsonian, which owns the original designs, "from the moment of its publication [in 1884], Elihu Vedder's 'Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyam' achieved unparalleled success Critics rushed to acclaim it as a masterwork of American art, and Vedder (1836-1923) as the master American artist. Vedder's 'Rubáiyát' set the standard for the artist-designed book in America and England." William F. Gable (1856-1921) founded the Gable's Department Store, in Altoona, PA, opening on March 1, 1884. The first incarnation of the store was a single room. In 1891, Gable built a Victorian Neoclassical style building, in downtown Altoona. It was in this building that the Gable's Department Store became the forerunner of the modern department store. By 1913, Gable's was the most complete department store in the state of Pennsylvania. It had come to be known as "the people's store." The renowned collection of the late William F. Gable, of Altoona, Pennsyvania was sold at auction by the American Art Association, Inc. on January 1st, 1923.
