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This particular choirbook was printed with 10 lines of text and music per page. Each leaf contains music and words, and is printed in black and red; text is in black, with an occasional small letter in red, and the music is provided for all the antiphons in black square notation on a four-line red staff. Antiphons begin with a tall decorative initial printed in red, as high as the text and music together. The initials vary from leaf to leaf.

•  Crisp, wide margined leaf with slightest bleed-through from one side to another. Printed on handmade paper of 100% rag. A marvelous display, accent, or gift item.

The woodcut “printer's device” on the title-page is telling: “Ex trunco veteri novus ramus,” which pretty much epitomizes Leclerc's writings.

Uncommon.  We locate fewer than 10 copies in the U.S.

•  Weller, I, p.278.   Recent quarter leather with gilt spine; sides with German-style brown paper speckled with black. Shadow of old pencilled shelf number and another four-digit number on verso of title-page. A very good copy.  (24769)

WorldCat and NUC Pre-1956 locate only seven U.S. institutional holdings.

•  Martin & Walter 8746.   Folded as issued, never bound, edges uncut. Title-page with paper shelving label in lower inner corner, red-pencilled annotation in upper inner corner, and pencilled monogram in upper outer corner. A few instances of light spotting.  (30941)

Uncommon: WorldCat and NUC Pre-1956 locate only three U.S. institutional holdings.

•  Removed from a nonce volume. First page with paper shelving label in lower inner corner, barely touching one letter of text, and with pencilled monogram in upper outer corner. Pages trimmed closely, in one instance touching a few letters without loss of sense. Mild waterstaining across lower and outer portions, pages otherwise crisp and clean.  (30837)

Uncommon: WorldCat and NUC Pre-1956 locate only three U.S. institutional holdings.

•  Simply sewn, edges untrimmed; spine with small split. Title-page with paper shelving label in lower inner corner and pencilled monogram in upper outer corner. Sewing loosening. Minor age-toning and offsetting; final leaf with paper flaw resulting in shortening of upper outer corner.  (30909)

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•  Evans 16773; Hildeburn, The Issues of the Press in Pennsylvania, 1685–1784, 4006. Five-digit number stamped above the title; pp. 1 and 2 separated from 3 and 4, and gutter margin repaired, reattaching the halves. Semicircular tear in lower, inside area of all pages, costing a total of 9 or 10 words.

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This is numbered copy 538 of 1600 printed, signed at the colophon by the artist.

•  Bibliography of the Fine Books Published by the Limited Editions Club, 508.   Publisher's quarter green buckram and cream paper printed in dark gray in a foliage-inspired pattern, spine gilt-stamped with title and vignettes, in matching paper-covered slipcase; slipcase spine and edges sunned, with book fresh inside; a clean, crisp copy.  (32631)

•  Rosenbach, Jewish, 636; Singerman, Judaica Americana, 1024; Goldman 37.   Binding as above, in splendid condition. Small bookplate as above. Interior virtually pristine, with service for Purim an exception showing use. A marvelous copy with a significant provenance.  (32645)

Uncommon: WorldCat and NUC Pre-1956 locate only one U.S. institutional holding but we know of a second.

•  Saricks, I, 385.   Removed from a nonce volume, preliminary blank with paper shelving label in lower inner corner and pencilled monogram in upper outer corner. Title-page verso with 19th-century paper label. Page edges untrimmed; pages age-toned with some dust-soiled; last few leaves with minor worming touching a few letters without affecting sense.  (30881)

•  Contemporary quarter green sheep in imitation of morocco over paper-covered sides, spine with gilt-stamped title; joints and edges slightly rubbed, spine showing very faint traces of a now-absent label. Front pastedown with private collector’s 19th-century bookplate and with institutional rubber-stamp (no other markings). Half-title with chip to outer margin; pages and plates clean and fresh.

Provenance:  “Presented by the Hon. Rev. L. Barrington, 1895" in a neat hand at the top of the title-page; on rear endpaper, upside down, is “Robert French [possibly, Trench] is the right owner of this booke.”

•  ESTC S108428; Wing (rev. ed.) L15411.   Contemporary calf with modest blind ruling on covers, rebacked without label but with decorative blind tooling; covers a bit scuffed and showing wear. Age-toned, with cockling and a little foxing; pleasingly, NOT close-trimmed. A very good copy.  (32303)

•  Contemporary quarter black morocco with paper-covered sides, spines with gilt-stamped title and gilt-stamped compartment decorations; bindings clean and solid with only very minimal edge and corner wear. Front pastedowns and free endpapers each with institutional rubber-stamp (no other markings). Pages slightly age-toned; a few leaves unopened. Handsome.

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•  ESTC R25145; Wing (rev. ed.) L1130; McAlpin, IV, 589.   Recent marbled paper wrappers. Title-page darkened and institutionally pressure-stamped, with lower outer portion torn away, just touching final number in date with no loss of sense. First few pages with edge nicks. Final (adv.) leaf with short internal tear with loss of a few letters, not affecting sense.  (25009)

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Provenance: Property, in 1836, of Henry G. Hubbard of Detroit.

•  Shaw & Shoemaker 25848.   Contemporary sheep. Spine with compartments divided by gilt rules. Leather much rubbed with a little chipping. Browning from turn-ins onto endpapers and title-page. Top margins closely trimmed with loss of page numbers in some places. Inked ownership inscriptions on recto of front free endpaper and title-page. (5442)

Uncommon: WorldCat and NUC Pre-1956 locate only four U.S. institutional holdings of this first edition.

•  This ed. not in Martin & Walter (cf. IV 2: 8376).   Sewn, never bound; title-page with affixed paper shelving label in lower inner corner, not touching text, and with pencilled monogram in upper outer corner. Dustsoiling. Page edges untrimmed and somewhat ragged. One leaf with ink stain in lower outer corner, not touching text; one leaf dog-eared; a few leaves towards back with light waterstaining in lower inner portions, not touching text.  (30695)

Uncommon: WorldCat and NUC Pre-1956 locate only two U.S. institutional holdings.

•  Removed from a nonce volume. Title-page with affixed paper shelving label in lower inner corner and pencilled monogram in upper outer portion. Pages age-toned with a few light spots.  (30814)

Binding:  Publisher's olive cloth, front cover decoratively stamped in gilt, black, and blind, with affixed chromolithographic portrait of O'Malley's lady in a straw(?) hat trimmed with pink feathers and ribbons.

Provenance:  Front free endpaper with inked gift inscription dated Christmas 1908, to Major Catlett Conway Taliaferro (1847–1916), a prominent Virginia land agent, Democratic supporter, and philanthropist (“from his wife”). Taliaferro had fought under General Lee, and was selected to carry the flag of truce to General Grant.

•  Bound as above; spine darkened, mildly rubbed, text block just starting to pull away from spine. Pages lightly age-toned. Attractive and interesting.  (32704)

one of the unnumbered, first 100 hors de commerce copies

•  Two Decades of Hamady & the Perishable Press, 41.   Publisher's golden brown textured paper wrappers, front wrapper with blind-stamped title. One leaf with an incorporated, volunteer, foreign bit-of-something gracing the handmade paper. A clean, unworn copy.  (30798)

signed by the artist

•  Two Decades of Hamady & the Perishable Press, 65.   Publisher's violet-gray paper wrappers, front wrapper with blind-stamped title. Clean and crisp.  (30786)

This author enjoyed great success among feminine (and young) audiences with his gothic tales of horror and woe, most notably with his one novel, The Monk, a youthful production that earned him his nickname. Shelley was especially fond of Lewis's work, although Byron mocked the author's “gibb'ring spectres” and “infernal brain” in the poem “English Bards and Scotch Reviewers.”

•  NCBEL, III, 743 (first ed.).   Later 19th-century half sheep in imitation of morocco over marbled paper sides, worn and abraded; leather chipping over head of spine, covers pressure-stamped by a now-defunct institution, spine with paper shelving label. Title-page and several others stamped; endpaper and final blank separated but present (former with date slip); many pages, not unexpectedly, show light to moderate spots of foxing, and there is some staining. Last leaf torn across outer corner taking top author's name in ads on verso (it was John Beckmann) and most of three words of the last poem's last verse (“herte should breke”).  (5414)

•  Publisher's cream-colored boards in original dust wrapper, cream-colored portions of jacket slightly darkened, otherwise showing only minimal shelfwear. A clean, solid copy.  (30365)

•  ESTC R21973; Wing (rev. ed.) L1851.   Removed from a volume. Foxing. Still, very good condition.  (32242)

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•  Sabin 78417.   Stitched originally, but this now perished and leaves separating; irregularly trimmed, in the case of two leaves to touch text; some foxing/staining, and chipping.  (26006)

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Lightfoot (1602–75) was a noted Hebraist and Biblical scholar; Lowndes says of his works that “the writings of Dr. Lightfoot are an invaluable treasure to the biblical student.”

•  ESTC R21614; Wing (2nd ed.) L2052; Lowndes 1359.   Recent marbled paper–covered boards, spine with gilt-stamped title and publication labels. Title-page institutionally rubber-stamped. Pp. 145–48 (the end of the “Christian History...XXXIIII” section) bound in between pp. 152 and 153, with annotations in an early inked hand noting the error. Pages trimmed closely, taking part of title-page border and in a few instances affecting the catchwords or final lines of text. Waterstaining, mostly to lower outer portions.  (24853)

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•  Metallic marbled paper-covered boards, front cover with printed paper label. Clean and pleasant, in original glassine dustwrapper remarkably intact. (31136)

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The correspondence was also issued in separate parts, and as part of the Opera omnia in seven volumes with a general title-page dated 1614.

•  Bibliotheca Belgica, L406 (Opera), L257 and L258.   Contemporary vellum single-ruled in blind with an ornate central cartouche and four fleurons stamped in black on each cover, manuscript title on spine with raised bands accented by black ruling; red speckled edges, and evidence of four ties. Front joint repaired and new endpapers, text with dust-soiling and a handful of small stains, mild foxing on a few leaves and browning in some sections; faint curves of waterstaining along edges in a few places, small marginal tear on one leaf. A nice copy of a handsome Plantin–Moretus printing.  (30963)

The text is printed in roman and italic, with side- and shouldernotes; it is decorated with elegant woodcut initials against a floriated background, one factotum, a handful of head- and tailpieces, and a couple of small vignettes. The woodcut printer's device on the title-page has the monogram “AT” beneath a dolphin & anchor combination with the motto festina tarde, reminiscent of the Aldine device.

This edition is not in NUC Pre-1956, and WorldCat locates just one copy in the U.S. (with a variant imprint, “A Cologny”).

Evidence of readership: A short biography of Lipsius in French has been written on the fly-leaves in early ink.

•  Early vellum over flexible boards, somewhat stained and rubbed; evidence of four ties, and ink title to spine. Cropped close with very minor loss to a couple of running headlines and side- or shouldernotes; a few corner-tips torn away and a few stains only; instances variously of slightest perceptible worming and outer margin of pp. 585–98 holed by an insect affecting the sidenotes on those leaves, with lesser evidence of the same gnawing to rear pastedown and back cover.  (29885)