Bookplates

First 4to edition, 2 works bound in one (28.5 x 21 cm); woodcut titles and initials, richly illustrated throughout including full-page illustrations, library stamp and bookplate to front pastedown, ownership inscription in pencil to front free endpaper, pen trials to final blank page; a large copy with good margins (5 cm), contemporary vellum, gilt morocco title-piece to spine, edges stained blue, annotations to panels, light spotting to margins throughout; leaves: 119, [1]; 52pp; signatures: A-3I4; A-N4.

First edition of the Prefaces; 8vo (23.5 x 16.5 cm); bookplate to front pastedown of both vols, The Prefaces with minor spotting to half-title and woodcut title-page, otherwise internally clean; green half morocco and cloth board by Sangorski & Sutcliffe, covers ruled in gilt, gilt spine with raised bands, all edges gilt, spine slightly discoloured, the Prefaces with chip to spine head (2 cm), minor scuffing and covers with areas of colour loss; viii, 1404; viii, 802pp.

First edition; 4to (22 x 17.5cm); 3 folding plates (each approx. 35 x 26 cm), 2 engraved portraits, woodcut initials and decorations throughout the text, engraved armorial book-stamp to last leaf verso displaying motto 'light in darKines lumiere dans les tenebres'; one integral blank leaf, title page stained and browned, some marginal staining and browning throughout, creasing to corners, one small wormhole affecting 4 leaves; side-stitched contemporary marbled wrappers, worn and soiled with extensive loss to upper wrapper; [16], 39, [1]pp.

First two-volume edition; 8vo (22 x 15.5 cm); bookplate to front pastedown of each vol., ownership inscription to front free endpaper recto of each vol., half titles, frontispiece portraits, richly illustrated with folding maps and facsimile letters; publisher's purple cloth, gilt arms to upper covers, gilt spine, top-edge stained purple; 1050, 1078pp.

First one-volume edition; 8vo (21.5 x 14 cm); armorial bookplate to front pastedown, 40 illustrations by George Cruickshank including frontispiece, light toning to margins of plates; brown morocco, covers ruled in gilt, gilt spine with raised bands, all edges gilt, very minor wear to extremities; viii, 526pp.

The 'South Seas' issue; 2 vols bound as one; folio (35.5 x 29 cm, 14 x 11.5 in); two armorial bookplates to front pastedown; hand coloured etched frontispiece, two engraved parallel titles in English and French (the first with imprint also in French), engraved dedication to the King, two engraved explanatory tables, half-title, engraved plate of medals (undated), 80 hand coloured engraved plates numbered in a contemporaneous hand, with two loose contemporaneous single leaf prospectuses in English and French; contemporary full red morocco by L. Staggemeier and Welcher (with ticket), gilt-ruled borders of a Greek key roll and gilt-dotted rule, gilt spine with emblematic and classical tools offset by two green morocco contrasting lettering-pieces, all edges gilt, extremities lightly rubbed, a few minor stains to binding, very occasional spotting internally; 39, [1]pp (pagination begins half-title verso). A very fine copy.

First edition, 3 vols; 8vo (25 x 16 cm); armorial bookplate to front pastedown of each volume; contemporary green cloth bindings, gilt spines, light spotting. A very good set.

First edition thus, one of 2 copies on Imperial vellum numbered xx, from a total edition of 22, Prokosch's own copy with his signed bookplate, also signed by him on the colophon; 12mo; original hand-coloured illustration by Frederic Prokosch signed by him in pencil and mounted as frontispiece; original patterned brick red and gilt wrappers, gilt label to upper cover, with Prokosch's manuscript 'Bibliographical Note' on blue paper, preserved in blue marbled folding case and quarter morocco slipcase. A fine example.

First edition thus, one of 2 copies on red Florentine numbered xx, from a total edition of 22, Prokosch's own copy with his signed bookplate, also signed by him on the colophon; 12mo; original hand-coloured illustration by Frederic Prokosch signed by him in pencil and mounted as frontispiece; original silver foil wrappers, brick red label to upper cover, with Prokosch's manuscript 'Bibliographical Note' on blue paper, preserved in black folding case and quarter morocco slipcase. A fine example.

First edition thus, one of 2 copies on Imperial vellum numbered xx, from a total edition of 22, Prokosch's own copy with his signed bookplate, also signed by him on the colophon; 12mo; original hand-coloured illustration by Frederic Prokosch signed by him in pencil and mounted as frontispiece; original patterned light brown wrappers, gilt label to upper cover, with Prokosch's manuscript 'Bibliographical Note' on blue paper, preserved in blue marbled folding case and quarter morocco slipcase. A fine example.