Complete works of Goethe comprising his poetry, theater, novels, critical essays and correspondence. Gothic printing in 2 columns. 5 superb steel engravings on thick paper under yellow tissue guards in volume 2 by Kaulbach and Felner in Gothic or classical style and engraved by English engravers, 2 engravings in volume 3. One of the first complete works of the author who died in 1833. The same publisher had issued this edition in 55 thin volumes in 1833, here delivering a more compact and manageable version.
German contemporary full green shagreen binding. Smooth spine decorated with rococo tools connected by long fillets. Gilt title and volume number. Double fillet frame on boards. Top edge gilt and marbled edges. Beautiful black and orange marbled endpapers. Laid paper of superb freshness, completely free of foxing. Spine lightly faded. Traces of rubbing at headcaps, small dark stains on spine of volume 2 and on volume 3.
Magnificent copy.
First edition, rare, first issue with the 8 lines of errata on one leaf. The illustration, executed according to the author's very precise instructions, comprises a frontispiece, an engraved title with a vignette and 38 plates by Hablot Knight Browne, including one in mezzotint: On the dark road. Text on tinted laid paper.
Contemporary half red shagreen binding. Raised bands spine, decorated. Author and title in gilt. Top edge gilt. Margins of the frontispiece, engraved title and engravings browned, as is usually the case in English editions of Dickens. Clean text, free from foxing. Light rubbing. Handsome copy.
A novel written in a distinctly darker vein featuring the excessive pride of a tyrannical father driven by ambition against the unwavering love of his daughter, whom he completely ignores. As always with Dickens, we find a keen perception of the social tensions of the period.
First edition
Contemporary full red morocco binding. Decorated spine with raised bands. Red morocco title label. Triple fillet frame on boards. Gilt edges. Traces of rubbing. 2 corners slightly bumped.
Fine copy, precious in contemporary red morocco.
First edition of the French translation by Marie Canavaggia, one of 26 numbered copies on pur-fil paper, only deluxe copies ("tirage de tête").
Nice copy.
New illustrated edition 300 numbered copies printed, ours on marble Vellum paper. The book is embellished with 50 drawings in color by Pablo Roig and decorated with a frame in the Art Nouveau style by Riom.
Full brown shagreen, the spine sunned in five compartments completely blindtooled from half circle embellished with golden carnations, fillets by cold soldering outline the raised band, date and place of publication to foot, covers are completely framed with a grid pattern of blindtooled fillets forming decorative compartments in their center a golden hoop, the large plate achieved by Saint-André in the center of the first chiseled cover in a sunken Andalusian pattern representing “golden roots surrounding a phantom tree like in the novel, of P. Louys, the women are surrounded by a phantom man” in the double golden frame, signed by the artist on the outside of the plate, golden wheels outline the headband and the spine head, the end pages and the fly pages of silk with a painted rose pattern by Saint- André, the golden fillets and the wheels and the pattern incised in emerald morocco and garnet in frames the end pages, the fly pages doubled with paper in a grey and orange floral pattern, the covers preserved, gilt edges. The slipcover is covered in silk to give the effect of iridescence trimming in brown shagreen. Binding by Noulhac in collaboration with Saint-André.
Manuscript note by Saint-André: this binding was probably presented at the Salon of French artists at the Grand Palais Beaux-Arts at the Champs-élysées it was probably not submitted to the competition and to the members of the jury. Moreover, a note on the manuscript written by the artist on a broad-sheet explains the meaning of the central pattern of the first cover. Very light repair on the foot of a joint.
Exceptional Andalusian inspired Art Nouveau binding presented at the Salon of French artists.
