Fable And Emblem Books from Abbey Antiquarian Books

Leyden: Christopher Plantyn, 1586. Hardcover. Good. Woodcut illustrations in frames, some printed from woodblocks previously used by Plantin in other emblem books. . Small Quarto (20x15cm) half-calf (rebacked, sunned) LACKING all before A-3 (pg.5) half-title for Part II used as Titlepage; also LACKING all after c-3 (pg.222). The first English Emblem Book, although printed at Leyden: Very Rare.… Read more about this item

Amsterdam: Isaak Tirion (1705-1765), 1730. Hardcover. Very Good. frontispiece + portrait + 8 full-page emblems + 2 folding plates by Goeree + Vignette to title +8 headpieces + 4 hieroglyphic plates. Octavo laced through blindstamped vellum [sl soiled] All eges rouge, Engraved title of Nepture playing the harp while riding a dolphin through stormy seas +titlepage printed… Read more about this item

London: Rivington, White & others printed Darton & Harvey, 1793. Hardcover. Good. Copperplate engravings (67 ovals on 34 plates & Engraved TP & frontis by G. Neagle (bound after Life of Gay).. Octavo (207x124mm) 2 Parts in 1 volume gilt calf (rebacked with old spine laid on - pine lacks labels & has some flaking & darkening, tips… Read more about this item

Antwerp: Joannes Van Soest 13th edition, after 1688 before 1741. Hardcover. Fair. Engraved pictorial titlepage +copperplates (26 of which many are nearly full page and three are in two scenes divided by a frame-line).The emblematic plates have one signed Boutatts + half a dozen mainly floral woodcut tailpieces. 8vo contemprary brown leather on 5 raised bands with gilt… Read more about this item

Newcastle: Printed by E. Walker for T. Bewick and Son 2nd edition., 1823. Hardcover. Very Good. Engraved title vignette + 380 ovals in rectangular shaded frames by Thomas Bewick, many reworked to improve graphic clarity of cuts in this edition (Bewick had been dissatisfied with 1st Edn).. Demi octavo (in 4's) 216x132mm paper size, gilt calf (rebacked with… Read more about this item

Amsterdam Holland: Gysbert de Groot (Widow of), n.d. Hardcover. Good. half-page copperplates (125) by Marcus Gheeraerts + 68x51mm copperplate of animals to titlepage. 4to Laced through Vellum [12pp] + 125pp + [1p =blank] last three leaves with marginal repairs incl.last leaf mounted on newer paper (this verso was blank) 3 corners with loss but not touching any print,… Read more about this item

Augsburg: Johann Ulrich Krausen 1st edition of the 1st work., 1706 at preface + 1715. Hardcover. Good. full page copperplate frontispiece + quater page copperplate engraving to titlepage and quarter page headpiece to Preface + Illustration to PART TWO +full-page frontis to this Twenter [sic] Theil +120 Full page copperplates + copperplate frontis to 1715 S. folio [315… Read more about this item

Paris: Jean Baptiste Loyson, 1659. Hardcover. Fair. full-page copperplate engravings (65 of 67 -the missing plates are laid in in facsimile) Emblems are numbered but number 52 IS SKIPPED & it is also omitted in the contents list ) Many plates are signed Briot or Marie Briot + there are decorative intitials. 8vo speckled roan on 4 raised… Read more about this item

Amsterdam: J.Oosterwyk en H vande Gaete 1st edition, 1714. Hardcover. Good. frontispiece + copperplate to titlepage +8 threequarter page copperpaltes w.verses below by L. Wanelaar [frontis.} + J.Schijnvoet.. sm.8vo vellum laced-through (tips worn/vellum sl. darkened) half title + engraved title +printed titlepage +[30pp incl.dediction + to reader +laudatory poems etc.] +128pp +half title leaf +[2p =poem] +… Read more about this item

Amsterdam: Pieter Meijer, 1781, 1782, 1774. Hardcover. Very Good. Engraved frontisplate + 3 titlepages with engraved vignettes totalling 153 engravings [vol.1 has 55 plates +vol. II 62 plates + vol. III 33 plates + 3 engravings.. 3 VOLUMES 8vo half tan leather on 5 raised spine bands with gilt flower to each compartment and gilt rules & … Read more about this item

Vienna & Nurnberg Germany: Georg Lehmann, 1721. Hardcover. Good. Frontispiece with a party of six sitting under a tree near their hut with a cook preparing a meal in a tent beyond +29 Floral & other initial letters 30 x 30mm + a few large handsome tail-pieces.. 4to brown leather on 4 raised bands with gilt rules and… Read more about this item

London: Jonathan Cape, 1980. Hardcover. Very Good. Colour illustated (21 full page including frontispiece) by Arnold Lobel.. Folio pictorial boards (slight wear to corners, bit marked). Frontis + titlepage + contents leaf + 40pp + [1]p plate.

London: Fredreick Warne and Co., 1887 by inscription. Hardcover. Good. Woodengraved illustrations (80) in text - these are not the Croxall illustrations, they are unsigned but in the style of Harrison Weir but NOT by him Weir although not by him.. Post octavo red pictorial cl oth (tips worn/vent to foot) viii + 152pp. Using the Croxall translation… Read more about this item

Amsterdam: Franciscus Halma, 1701. Hardcover. Good. Engraved title page by Goerel/Boutats + 108 round copperplates on 18 full-page leaves signed I.V. Vianen (Jan van Vianen) dated 1701 + 49 woodcut initials & ornate figurative metal-cut head- & tail-pieces (some repeats but large & finely detailed).. Quarto gilt-ruled calf (rebacked in leather with original red gilt title label laid… Read more about this item

Antwerp: Typis Viduae Ioan. Cnobbari 1st edition, 1639. Hardcover. Very Good-. Emblem copperplates (50) by Andries (signed in emblem p84 as Pauli ie) Pauwels + an Engraved titlepage by Theodore van Merlen all engraved by Abraham van Diepenbeeck who was a pupil of Rubens.. Quarto newer full levant morocco blindtooled on 4 raised bands spine compartments gilt and… Read more about this item

Amsterdam: Jan Jacobsz Schipper, 1656, 1655. Hardcover. Very Good-. Engraved titlepage + 3 full-page plates + 16, 30, 23 half-page copperplates by or after Adriaen van de Venne (1589-1662) showing customs, family life, agriculture, trades and dances of death.. Quarto vellum laced through with yapp fore-edges and faded manuscript title to spine (slightly marked). Half-title and engraved Titlepage… Read more about this item

London printed in Spain: Jupiter Books 1st thus, 1975. Hardcover. Very Good/Good. Frontispiece portrait of La Fontaine with illustrations (about 30 full-page + text illustrations on yellow half column) after Gustave Doré.. Small quarto cloth in dust jacket (tips rubbed) 224pp. Text in French and English. Corner of front endpaper cut away else V.G. *Taken from the 1867… Read more about this item

London: Blackie 1st thus illustrated, 1964. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. illustrations ( circa 24 f-p + text) by Cyril Deakins. 16mo blue boards in price clipped dust jacketwith color illustration of the fable of the tortoise and the hare (jacket rubbed to edges else V.G) 128pp No inscriptions, no loose pages a very good copy.

Leipzig & Berlin: Otto Spamer 3rd edition, 1884. Hardcover. Fair. Frontis in black blue & red shades + 82 text illustrations after F. Flinzer, A Richter, O. Rostosky et al.. Octavo blue cloth spined boards (small part of old spine relaid, tips worn & one corner repaired with loss to margin of paper on cover) xii +186pp +… Read more about this item

Paris: Chez Le Pan, Rue S. Guillaume la premiere porte Cochere a droite en entrant par la rue S. Dominique, 1791 from editor's note in another vol.. Softcover. Good. Finely engraved plates (49 of 50) + engraved titlepage. Plates all "del" or "invenit" by Gravelot or Cochin, with various engravers named.. 232 by 153mm Volume III (of IV)… Read more about this item