Binding by rivière (2 resultados)

calf. Condición: Fine. Fine Binding. Sixteenmo, [10],116pp, [2]. Full green tooled calf, gilt dentelles. Marbled endpapers, top edge gilt. Clean text throughout. Illustrated headers, printed on India paper. A beautiful binding by Bayntum. Maxims, published in French as Réflexions; ou, sentences et maximes morales, is the best-known work of François, duc de La Rochefoucauld (1613-1680), first published anonymously in 1665 and revised through several editions during the author's lifetime, with the 1678 fifth edition generally representing his final authorized text. The book consists of brief moral observations on pride, self-interest, love, friendship, virtue, hypocrisy, and social conduct, often reducing human motives to vanity or concealed self-love. Finely bound 1913 edition of Maxims by La Rochefoucauld, published by Humphreys of London, binding by Bayntum and Riviere. (ilustrador).…

Hardcover. Condición: Near Fine condition. Second Impression. London: Oxford University Press for the English Association, 1934. Handsomely bound by Rivière & Son, London. Near Fine condition. SEE PHOTOS. Bound sometime between 1934 and 1939 by Rivière & Son, stamp-signed (blurry) in black on the verso of the front endpaper. SEE PHOTOS. Full dark blue crushed levant morocco, front and rear covers with double gilt ruled borders. Spine with five raised bands decoratively gilt tooled/lettered within 6 compartments. Gilt board edges. Red and green leather spine labels. Handsome gilt inside dentelles (i.e. borders decorated with gilt lacy pattern at inner edges]. Beautiful marbled endpapers. All edges gilt. SEE PHOTOS. 5" wide by 7.5" tall. NO owner's name or bookplate. Sharp corners. Pages are crisp, clean and unmarked. Between 1884 and 1939, Rivière & Son, Bookbinders traded in London at Heddon Street, off Regent Street. The firm closed its doors in 1939 when it was acquired by George Bayntum, renamed Bayntum - Riviere Bindery, and relocated to Bath. Because this book was published in 1934 and is signed "Rivière & Son," it must have been bound between 1934 and 1939. Rivière & Son (stamped). Second Impression. Hardcover. Near Fine condition. Illus. by RIVIÈRE & SON, binders. xx, 307pp. Great Packaging, Fast Shipping. RIVIÈRE & SON, binders (ilustrador).…