victor klarwill pauline chary gordon (4 résultats)

Hardcover. Etat : Very Good. Etat de la jaquette : Not Issued. First Thus. Red cloth, lettered in gilt. Mild dampstaining and spotting to both covers, darkened spine panel rubbed with minor loss at head and 1/4" separation at head of front joint. Firm binding. liii,275,[6] pp. Minor dampstaining to top corners of front endsheet and a few minor marks to upper corner of a few early leaves. Size: 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall. Book.

Hardcover. Etat : Very Good. Etat de la jaquette : Fair. 2nd Edition. John Lane The Bodley Head Ltd., London, 1928. Hardcover. Second edition. First edition thus. First The Week-End Library edition. Waxed red cloth boards. Gilt lettering and gilt decoration to spine. Gilt illustration to upper board, possibly the Coat of Arms of the House of Fugger. Gilt Maroon decorative staining to top edges. Dustjacket. Dustjacket chipped at head and foot of spine and at top and bottom of folding edges of dustjacket. Spine of dustjacket internally repaired with Sellotape along joint with front panel of dustjacket. Superficial area of loss to bottom edge of rear panel of dustjacket. 0.5 cm and 1 cm closed tears to top edge of rear panel of dustjacket. A very good copy in a fair dustjacket. Please note the variant dustjacket: The "F" in Fugger would appear to have been printed as a "B" on the rear panel of the dustjacket. According to Wikipedia, "the founder of the family was Johann Fugger, a weaver at Graben, near the Swabian Free City of Augsburg. The last name was originally spelled "F***er" - the first recorded reference to the family comes when Johann's son, also named Johann (or Hans), moves to Augsburg in 1367, with the local tax register laconically noting F***er advenit, "Fugger has arrived".

Leather. Etat : Good. None stated (illustrateur). First edition. A leather bound set of the first and second series of The sixteenth century 'Fugger News-Letters', translated from the original German, and bound in contemporary crushed half morocco by Birdsall. The first edition to the 'Second Series', and the second edition to 'The first series'. A complete two volume set, featuring the first and second series.Illustrated with a monochrome frontispiece and twenty-nine monochrome plates to 'Series One'. A frontispiece and forty-five images across thirty-nine plates to 'Series Two'. Collated, both complete.'Fuggerzeitungen' is a term used in Germany to refer to sixteenth century handwritten newsletter. Historically, it directly derives from a collection of such newsletters put together by Octavian Secundus and Philipp Eduard Fugger. These volumes contain the Fugger News-Letters from 1568 to 1605, covering topics from the execution of Count Egmont and Count Horn in Brussels, to the establishment of the Dutch in Brazil, and much more. Edited by Victor von Klarwill, an Austrian author and editor. Translated by Pauline de Chary. With a foreword by Harry Gordon Selfridge, an American retail magnate who founded the London-based department store Selfridges.Bound in crushed half morocco with cloth to the boards by Birdsall, with their binder's stamp to the front blank. Bound in crushed half morocco with cloth to the boards. Externally, faded to the spine, rubbing to the extremities and joints, with front joint tender to 'Vol II', and cracked but holding firm to 'Vol I'. Binder's stamp to the front blank. Internally firmly bound with bright pages with the occasional light spotting, slightly heavier to 'Vol II'. Good. book.

Cloth. Etat : Very Good. Not Stated (illustrateur). A smart set of reprints of the first and second series of The Fugger News-Letters, translated from the original German. Two volumes. Volume one is illustrated with a frontispiece and twenty-nine plates. Volume two is illustrated with a frontispiece and forty-five images across thirty-nine plates. Collated complete. 'Fuggerzeitungen' is a term used in Germany to refer to sixteenth century handwritten newsletter. Historically, it directly derives from a collection of such newsletters put together by Octavian Secundus and Philipp Eduard Fugger. These volumes containing the Fugger News-Letters from 1568 to 1605, covering topics from the execution of Count Egmont and Count Horn in Brussels, to the establishment of the Dutch in Brazil, and much more. Edited by Victor von Klarwill, an Austrian author and editor. Translated by Pauline de Chary. With a foreword by Harry Gordon Selfridge, Sr., an American retail magnate who founded the London-based department store Selfridges. With publisher's advertisements to the rear. In the original full cloth binding. Externally, smart with light rubbing and minor bumping to the extremities. Light fading to the spine with the odd small mark to the boards. Internally, firmly bound. Pages are very bright with light scattered spotting and age toning to the endpapers. Contemporary ink inscriptions to the front endpapers. Very Good. book.