Bibliographical Decameron Ten Days Pleasant by Dibdin Rev T F (6 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Fair. Printed for the Author by W. Bulmer and Co. (Shakespeare Press); London, 1817. Hardcover. Volume 2 Only. An Acceptable, full leather binding, rear board detached, handling/scuffing to boards, leather spine is dry and brittle with loss to top and bottom, rubbing along board edges, abrasion top front board corner, marbled endpapers and pastedowns, ribbon marker, AEG with some blemishes, some scattered foxing to front and back matters, starting and partially cracked front hinge, moisture stain to top of multiple pages, age toning to text block, without Dust wrapper. 8vo[octavo or approx. 6 x 9 inches]., 535pp., b&w illustrations. We pack securely and ship daily with delivery confirmation on every book. The picture on the listing page is of the actual book for sale. Additional Scan(s) are available for any item, please inquire.Please note: Oversized books/sets MAY require additional postage then what is quoted for 2.2lb book.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Beautiful Black Leather boards trimmed in Gold Likewise on spine with raised ribs. Set in FINE shape gold page edges around Clearly a high level set Vol 1 is Manuscripts and Woodcuts Vol 2 is Printing and Bookbinding and Vol. 3 is Bibliomania Bookselling.

37 single and two double plates (as called for in the plate list) plus numerous woodcuts and engravings; 10 x 6.5, gilt ruled dark maroon morocco with very decorative blindstamping on covers and spine, gilt-ruled inner dentelles, gilt lettering and dec. on spine which has five raised bands, all edges gilt, plain endpapers; ccxxv, 410; 535; 544, v, 18. scuffing and chipping (mainly near/on spine), some shelfwear, corners bumped, bookplates (?) removed from front pastedowns, address labels on endpapers, ink name and date on blank pages, pencil notes on the reverse of free front endpaper of vol 1, foxing, offsetting, light soiling, browning on some margins, pencil underlining and margin notes on a few pages, inner hinges cracking (not badly). A very attractive set, wonderfully illustrated. FIRST ED.

FIRST EDITION. Complete with errata, colophon, and half-titles. With 40 plates, including the oft missing "Presentation in the Temple" in Volume I, portraits, illustrations and facsimiles, engraved vignettes, woodcut and text illustrations (some printed on India paper and mounted). Contemporary full crimson crushed levant morocco bound by St. James' Duke Street, London, a dated binding with the elaborate gilt spine in 6 compartments and "London, 1827" in gilt at the foot. From the library of Thomas Willement (1786-1871), British stained glass artist, called "the father of Victorian Stained Glass," with his signature, a small circular binders label and his personal bookplate from the Society of London Antiquaries. A handsome copy with an important provenance.

First edition, 3 volumes, imp. 8vo, 37 plates (including 2 folding), plus many other engraved vignettes and woodcut illustrations and facsimiles in the text, several printed in color, several mounted, plus one mounted red leather label printed in gold; later full tan morocco, triple gilt rules on covers, gilt-lettered direct on gilt-decorated spines, a.e.g.; a few of the plates a bit spotted, else a very nice copy. Without the oft-missing "Presentation in the Temple" plate in vol. I. This is the only edition of one of Dibdin's most famous books (there were 50 on large paper) and certainly one of the best printed. Dibdin destroyed the plates for the book at a meeting of the Roxburgh Club. "This work forms one of the monuments of typographical bibliography. As in the style of its production it is the most sumptuous, so in the nature of its contents it may be said to be one of the most interesting books relative to ancient and modern printing" (Bigmore & Wyman). "The work is written in the same dialogue manner as the Bibliomania, with the same interlocutors, and may be properly described as a continuation of it. It is perhaps the most lavish of all Dibdin's works" (Jackson). Hart 186: "A bibliographer's classic that marks the beginning of the general recognition of bibliomania as a plaything for wealthy." Bigmore & Wyman pp. 169-170; Jackson 40; Lowndes I, 640; Windle and Pippen, A28.

Three volumes. 8vo, pp. ccxxvi, 410; [iv], 536, [ii]; [iv], 544, [iv]. 37 engraved plates, two double-page; 35 text illustrations printed on India paper and mounted on pages; one mounted gilt lettered specimen of red pared calf; and hundreds of engraved and woodcut text illustrations, several colored. (including plate 9 in the first volume) Bookplates. Bound in later 3/4 brown morocco, all edges marbled. Some minor foxing, soiling and offsetting. A handsome copy. Hart 186. Jackson 40. Lowndes (1885 edition), II, p. 640. Windle & Pippin A28. "In 1817 appeared the most amusing and the most successful (from a pecuniary point of view) of his works, the 'Bibliographical Decameron,' on which a great sum was spent for engravings and woodcuts. The reader will find a great deal of gossip about books and printers, about book collectors and sales by auction." (DNB). Perhaps the most lavish of all Dibdin's works.Its publication was a financial success and doubtless marks the high-water mark of the Dibdinian bibliomania." Jackson 4. Lowndes says of this work: "From the information which it contains, and the splendor of the decorations and printing, it will ever be considered as a model of excellence and good taste in typography and the arts." First and Only Edition, evidently limited to 750-800 regular and 50 large-paper copies.