Adam & Charles Black

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Adam & Charles Black
  1. The poetical works of Sir Walter Scott
    Walter SCOTT

    The poetical works of Sir Walter Scott

    Adam and Charles Black|Edinburgh 1857|18 x 25 cm|relié
    New edition, illustrated with a frontispiece, an engraved title and 18 plates, all on steel, and very numerous wood engravings (headpieces, tailpieces, vignettes) after Turner, Birket Foster & John Gilbert. Several facsimiles. Edition with notes, additions and remarks by J. G. Lockhart. Fine careful printing in 2 columns. Each work contains a half-title, an appendix. Clear and well-structured edition, perfectly illustrated with Scottish landscapes and historical scenes.
    Publisher's binding in full beveled ultramarine gilt cloth. Smooth spine decorated with a large ornamental composition evoking medieval illuminated books. Large decorative blue and gold plate, very rich, with central...
    €550
  2. Paris
    Dorothy MENPES, Mortimer MENPES

    Paris

    Adam & Charles Black|London 1909|21 x 27.50 cm|reliure de l'éditeur
    First edition, one of 500 numbered copies on "hand-made paper", the only deluxe copies.
    Full sand-colored cloth binding, smooth spine decorated with red typographic motifs in sanguine style, front cover ornamented with a pattern of red vertical fillets and six gilt fleur-de-lis, top edge gilt.
    Work illustrated with 75 hors-texte color illustrations by Mortimer Menpes.
    Very light foxing affecting mainly the first endpaper.
    Handsome copy.
    €750
  3. Presentation copy once owned by the author's close friend nicknamed "Tata": Adèle Herrenschmidt
    The Quest of the Historical Jesus
    Albert SCHWEITZER (inscribed to Adèle HERRENSCHMIDT)

    The Quest of the Historical Jesus

    Adam & Charles Black|London [Londres [London]] 1910|14.4 x 22.6 cm|Reliure de l'éditeur

    First English edition — of a recognised theological work — based on the 1906 first edition written in German.
    Contemporary Bradel publisher's khaki binding, smooth spine lettered with the title and author's name in gilt at head and with the publisher's name in gilt at foot, as well as gilt fillets at extremities, two blind-stamped fillets framing the boards. Autograph inscription by Albert Schweitzer in ink on the front free endpaper to Adèle Herrenschmidt, a friend he nicknamed "Tata" — and possibly lover according to some scholars — thirty-two years his senior, with whom he maintained a close relationship for nearly a quarter of a century and whom he...

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