•  New, in dust jacket.  (29379)

•  Publisher's red cloth, front cover and spine with gilt-stamped title, in original dust jacket; jacket lightly dust-soiled, price-clipped. A beautiful clean copy of a beautifully done book.  (24833)

•  Publisher's quarter crimson morocco and gilt black cloth, top edge gilt; one corner bump (sans glassine wrapper) and abraded at head/foot of spine.  (18011)

A fine example of this delicate American binding.

•  Smith, American Travellers Abroad, C24.   Publisher's embossed cloth, spine with gilt-stamped title; corners slightly rubbed, with spine sunned. First and last several leaves moderately foxed. A very nice copy.  (12939)

This leaf comes from a Books of Hours, a prayer book with eight sections corresponding to different times of day, more or less personalized depending on the owner's tastes and social class; illuminated Books of Hours signaled the owner's status — the more sophisticated the decoration, the more devout the patron (and the more money spent). Although contents vary, all Books of Hours contain the Hours of the Virgin, as well as a calendar and selection of psalms.

•  Soft, white vellum with gilt edges, housed in a cardboard and mylar folder. One (unobtrusive) thin cut in middle of leaf touching text and painted border, a little smudged, else infine condition and supporting/deserving double-glazed framing if framing is wanted.  (30938)

This leaf comes from a Books of Hours, a prayer book as described above.

•  Soft, white vellum, red edges, lightly soiled; tiny nicks (as usual) on one edge of the leaf where it was sometime detached from previous sewing, preserving margin except for one lower corner where a bit of vellum was cut away or naturally lacking. Very charming.  (30810)

•  Publisher's printed paper wrappers and brown cloth shelfback, wrappers lightly soiled. A few light smudges to pages.  (27651)

Binding:  Publisher's diamond-textured charcoal gray cloth, covers stamped in blind. Front cover with a gilt center device of a harp with shamrock and a quote from Exodus; rear cover with a center cartouche of the initial of the American Tract Society embossed in blind.

Provenance:  20th-century signature of Francis Massey O'Brien (Portland, Maine), bibliophile and bookseller.

•  Bound as above, spine extremities and corners rubbed; otherwise very nice indeed. Scattered brown stains in some margins and occasionally into text.  (29951)

One copy with red initials and bound in leather was presented to Hollander, and 59 copies to his friends. This is one of 40 additional copies sold by Ampersand Books.

•  Red, white, black, and gold patterned paper wrappers, with printed paper label on front cover. Fine, in mylar wrappers.  (30799)

Binding: Publisher's pale blue-green ribbed cloth richly stamped in gold on covers and spine. All edges gilt.

•  Bound as above, a bit rubbed at head and foot of spine; 1852 gift inscription on front free endpaper. Foxing to frontispiece and endpapers.  (30496)

The first volume is illustrated with12 plates each offering four rows of small portraits, some intriguingly expressive; each volume opens with an engraved frontispiece portrait of a royal George.

•  NSTC 2C23867.   Recent textured maroon cloth, spines with gilt-stamped black leather title and volume labels; title-pages institutionally pressure- (not rubber-) stamped. Scattered light spots of staining, pages generally clean; first few leaves of voI. \ II with outer margins chipped. A hefty, substantive evocation of Georgian life and times.  (30012)

Binding:  Publisher's lavender paper–covered light boards, covers framed in purple floral roll, spine with purple roll and all edges gilt.

•  Lightly rubbed, lightly faded, paper mostly lost from spine. Front hinge (inside) cracked, sewing loosening, free endpapers lacking. Light staining to upper outer corners of first and last few leaves, only; otherwise clean. We judge that the rarity of this little book and its “siblings” is the direct result of inherent fragility!  (27192)