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WINE, WOMEN, AND SONG: MEDIEVAL LATIN STUDENTS' SONGS by (BINDINGS - COSWAY BINDING). SYMONDS, JOHN ADDINGTON

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Seller: Phillip J. Pirages Fine Books and Medieval Manuscripts

Title: WINE, WOMEN, AND SONG: MEDIEVAL LATIN STUDENTS' SONGS
Author: (BINDINGS - COSWAY BINDING). SYMONDS, JOHN ADDINGTON
Seller: Phillip J. Pirages Fine Books and Medieval Manuscripts (United States)
Description: London: Chatto and Windus, 1884. No. 36 OF 50 LARGE PAPER COPIES. 283 x 207 mm. (11 1/4 x 8 1/4"). 4 p.l., 183, [1] pp.With a preface and explanatory notes by John Addington Symonds. SPLENDID CRIMSON MOROCCO COSWAY BINDING BY RIVIERE & SON from desgins by J. H. STONEHOUSE (stamp-signed on front turn-in), the morocco very densely stippled with gold, as a background from an allover design of grapevines, springing from a base at the foot of the spine and swirling up the spine and across both covers, the branches laden with clusters of golden fruit, the upper left quadrant of each cover with a large (112 x 86 mm.) HAND-PAINTED MINIATURE UNDER GLASS BY MISS C. B. CURRIE (stamp-signed on rear turn-in), the miniature on the front cover a replica of Guido Reni's painting Bacchus, that on rear cover reproducing Maratta's The Fruit Picker, raised bands, two spine panels with gilt lettering framed by grapevines, turn-ins framed by gilt fillets and wide band of stippling, olive green watered silk endleaves, top edge gilt, other edges untrimmed (gold lightly retouched along front joint). Housed in the original chamois-lined honey-brown morocco pull-off case by Riviere & Son. A Large Paper Copy. Henry Sotheran Illustrated Catalogue No. 41 of Beautiful Cosway Bindings with Miss Currie's World-Famous Miniatures (1913), reproduced in Ratcliffe's Cosway Bindings, volume I. A tiny bit of wear just showing at the top of rear joint, beginning of text with isolated trivial finger smudges, but A VERY FINE COPY inside and out, the text with gigantic margins, the binding brilliant with gold, and the miniatures in perfect condition. Containing a selection of 12th and 13th century songs mocking the sanctimonious and praising riotous living, this Ultra-Large Paper edition of "Wine, Women, and Song" is offered here in a splendid example of a so-called Cosway binding, one that appropriately embodies opulence and celebration, and one that features the work of the most famous painter to collaborate on Cosway bindings. The satirical verses here were composed in Latin by a wandering group of students and young clerics known as the Goliards. Primarily made up of younger sons from wealthy families forced into careers in the church by the laws of primogeniture, these rebellious youths had little interest in an ascetic religious life, and so took to the roads of England, France, and Germany as bands of singers and entertainers. Their songs mock Church hypocrisies and celebrate the sensual pleasures of a worldly existence. The Cosway style of binding, with painted miniatures inlaid in handsome morocco, apparently originated with the London bookselling firm of Henry Sotheran about 1909, the year G. C. Williamson's book entitled "Richard Cosway" was remaindered by Sotheran and presumably given this special decorative treatment. The name "Cosway" then was used to describe any book so treated, whatever its subject. Our copy was splendidly produced by the widely-recognized triumvirant of Cosway binding partners: Riviere, Stonehouse, and Currie. Specifically, finely painted miniatures on Cosway bindings were executed by Caroline Billin Currie (1849-1940) from 1910 until her death, creating such paintings for the bookseller Sotheran's, usually (as here) from designs by J. H. Stonehouse for bindings executed (again, as here) by the long-established binders Riviere. In their 1913 catalogue, Sotheran's described the present binding as a "beautiful example" (and offered it for sale at the considerable sum of £78). The portraits gracing Cosway-style bindings vary greatly in their level of achievement; Miss Currie's paintings are universally acknowledged as the very best. And whereas the majority of Cosway paintings (whether by Currie or an inferior artist) appear in relatively small ovals, the two paintings on the covers here are striking because of their considerably larger size. In addition, while most Cosway bindings show head-and-shoulder portraits, Miss Currie has here reinterpreted two charming paintings with oenophilic subjects: "The Boy Bacchus" by Italian Baroque painter Guido Reni (1575-1642), and "The Fruit Picker" by Late Baroque artist Carlo Maratta (1625-1713). Reni and Maratta were the leading Italian painters of, respectively, the first and second half of the 17th century, and were the preferred painters of the popes of the period. Both specialized in religious and mythological subjects--definitely not featured here! "The Fruit Picker" shows a voluptuous dark-haired woman, one hand on an apple tree, the other proffering a piece of the fruit, with a basket overflowing with grapes and pomegranates in the foreground. Currie produced a very faithful copy, down to the risqué glimpse of a breast, but softened the facial expression slightly with wider eyes and a gentle smile, in contrast to the more knowing and seductive original. She took more liberties with the other original, transforming Reni's dark, mischievious young god of wine into a darling blue-eyed blond English boy with rosy cheeks, much more in line with Victorian sensibilities. Her execution of both paintings is in every way a triumph..

Confessions of J.J. Rousseau by ROUSSEAU J.J.

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Title: Confessions of J.J. Rousseau
Author: ROUSSEAU J.J.
Seller: Bauman Rare Books (United States)
Description: 1783. First Edition. ROUSSEAU, Jean-Jacques. The Confessions of J.J. Rousseau: With the Reveries of the Solitary Walker. London: J. Bew, 1783. 12mo, period-style full paneled brown calf gilt, red morocco spine labels. $8800.Rare first edition in English of Rousseaus magnificent Confessions and Reveries (its sequel and complement), considered among Rousseaus finest works.""Confessions was published only posthumously; it was some time before Rousseau's ideas seeped into the drinking water. In his own day he was provocative but also outlandish. As Leo Damrosch put it, Rousseau was after all understood to be 'describing a state of nature that never existed, a political system that never could exist and an educational scheme that never should exist.' Social inequality, the will of the people, inalienable rights were meaningless concepts when Rousseau began ranting about them. Imagination was out of fashion; he was tiptoeing around the as-yet-undiscovered unconscious. He advocated idleness in the age of Adam Smith. If he suffered for being so much out of step with his own century, he can too easily be overlooked in ours. Without founding a schoolit would have been inappropriateRousseau stands squarely if unsystematically at the root of democracy, autobiography, Romanticism, child-centered education, even psychoanalysis"" (Stacy Schiff).Rousseau's ""devastatingly intimate"" self-portrait has become one of ""the landmarks of the literature of personal revelation and reminiscence"" and the model for modern autobiography (Brereton 107; Drabble 851). His Confessions is filled with candid and critical personal descriptions of himself and others; he did not intend for it to be published until the end of the century, but it was published within four years of his death. ""The publication of the Confessions in 1782 only reinforced the intensely personal bond that Rousseau's countless disciples felt with him nothing could shake their faith in his essential moral purity. The breathtaking candor of his admissions of vice as well as virtue strengthened their view that he was the greatest honnete homme of their century"" (Schama, Citizens, 160). First published in French, in Geneva, in 1782. As is usually the case, these two volumes contain the first half of the Confessions; the second half was not published until 1789 in French, with the English translation appearing in 1790. Owner signature of ""Mary Bisshopp 1795"" to title page of Volume I, with her small bookplate to versos of both title pages. Small engraved armorial bookplate tipped to final leaf of text. Bookplates of leading British book collector Eric Quayle, with his note on the first one: ""This is the first English edition and is very rare. E.Q."" Quayle published large-format and well-illustrated guides to book collecting, based on his own collection, which still act as signposts for new collectors, and important references for the experienced.Interior fresh. Very handsomely bound.

La Douceur de Vivre / Sweet Life (French edition) by ELSKEN, Ed van der

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Title: La Douceur de Vivre / Sweet Life (French edition)
Author: ELSKEN, Ed van der
Seller: Harper's Books (United States)
Condition: Bottom corners gently bumped, else close to fine in a sharp, better than near fine jacket.
Description: Paris: Editions Cercle D'Art, (1968). Bottom corners gently bumped, else close to fine in a sharp, better than near fine jacket.. First French Edition. Large square quarto. Text in French, translated by Elaine Brau. Van der Elsken's tour de force photo travelogue, a series of images shot around the world as Van der Elsken and his wife traveled by freighter. One of the true avant garde masterpieces of the sixties, a wild mixture of grainy, sublime, and intensely evocative pictures that conjures up the layouts of William Klein and would seem to segue into the Provoke movement of Japanese photography. (Parr, v1, 254-255; Auer 461).

The Kitten Eleven

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Title: The Kitten Eleven
Seller: Appledore Books, ABAA (United States)
Condition: Very Good +
Description: London: Bancroft & Co, 1965. Very Good +. Vojtech Kubasta. Charming 1965 kitten-themed miniature pop-up book, featuring 5 pop-ups designed and illustrated by the great Czech artist Vojtech Kubasta. All 5 pop-ups clean and VG+ and in sharp working order. Part of a wonderful series from Bancroft of London of 12 numeric pop-up books, numbered from 1-12 (this of course being the 11th title) and including other titles such as "Five Little Pigs", "The Six Singers", "The King of Ninepins", "Ten Little Teddy Bears", etc.

The Rule of Four by Caldwell, Ian; Thomason, Dustin

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Title: The Rule of Four
Author: Caldwell, Ian; Thomason, Dustin
Seller: Brenner's Collectable Books (United States)
ISBN: 9781844130054
Condition: Fine
Description: London: Century, 2004. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. 8vo., 372pp. Beautiful First British and True First Edition, First Printing with full number sequence. Square, tight and clean throughout with little or no wear. Equally attractive unclipped dust jacket, (£9.99), is fresh and bright with no chipping, creases or tears. Promotional wrap-around band present. A gorgeous collectable copy.

Nation-Building and Community in Israel by Dorothy Willner

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Seller: Capitol Hill Books, ABAA

Title: Nation-Building and Community in Israel
Author: Dorothy Willner
Seller: Capitol Hill Books, ABAA (United States)
Condition: Very Good
Description: Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1969. Very Good/Very Good. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1969. First Edition. Price-clipped dustjacket shows some tugging at head of spine, but is clean and crisp with no chips, tears, or marks. Binding is sound and pages unmarked. Not an ex-library copy.

The Reivers. A Reminiscence by Faulkner, William

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Title: The Reivers. A Reminiscence
Author: Faulkner, William
Seller: Eric Chaim Kline - Bookseller (United States)
Condition: Good to very good condition
Description: New York: Random House, 1962. First edition. Hardcover. Good to very good condition. Octavo. [6] 305pp. Original red cloth with gilt lettering and light red ruling on cover and spine, in original illustrated dustjacket with orange and tan lettering on spine. Red top edge. Ochre endpapers. Publisher's device on title page. Design by Tere Loprete. Price $4.95 on front flap. "The Reivers is, with no reservation whatsoever, one of the funniest books in our literature. It is a comic classic that will be universally read and reread, not only today, but as far into the future as any fiction of our time can continue to delight, interest, and inform the world of tomorrow." (Publisher. Light wear along edges of dustjacket with very light chipping and creasing and water stain at bottom of inside spine, lightly affecting front cover of binding. Previous owner's name inked to front free endpaper. Small silver dealer sticker at inside back cover.

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