#3 Life of Dante

Chiswick Catalog 106 #3. The Life of Dante. Giovanni Boccaccio. Translated by Philip H. Wicksteed. With wood engravings by John DePol. 71/2 x 11 1/4 inches. 72 pages. In a cloth pattern binding. Signed by Dorothy Allen and Lewis Allen. Greenbrae, CA, 1992. New.

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#108 Officina Bodoni

Chiswick Catalog 106, #108. Officina Bodoni. Giovanni Mardersteig. An account of the Work of a Hand Press, 1923-1977. 2 vols. 4to 8 1/4 x 12 inches. 288 pages. Half brown morocco, buckram sides, in an open-face slipcase as issued. Edizioni Valdonega, 1980. New.
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The Prospectus with note from Mardersteig to Herman Cohen.

#97 Typographia

Chiswick Catalog 106, #97. Typographia, or The Printer's Instructor. John Johnson. The large paper edition. 4 1/2 x 7 1/2. 2 vols. Bound in dark red morocco spines and corners, with marbled cloth sides, and marbled endleaves. London, 1824. A handsome copy of this comprehensive work in fine condition. Volume I (609 pages0 has the Caxton portrait with 3 other plates and small engravings. Volume 2 is the pirnter's manual with portrait of Johnson and additional engravings in the text. Each volume has an index.

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Feder Und Stichel

Hermann Zapf. Feder Und Stichel. Frankfurt am Main : D. Stempel, 1950. Incription on colophon "For Herman Cohen with best regards from the calligrapher H and the binder Hesse".

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Erasmus, 1520

Erasmus, Desiderius. Adagiorum chiliades quatuor, centuriaeque totidem. Quibus etiam quinta additur imperfecta. Venice: Aldine Press, September 1520.

Folio (320 x 210mm). 330 leaves. Collation: A-B8 C10; a-z aa-pp8. Printed in Roman and Greek types. Aldine woodcut device on title-page and final printed leaf.

Early mottled calf, with gilt tooling in compartments on the spine (six raised bands), incorporating an intertwined P and S, and a gilt pattern on the board edges. Marbled endleaves and page edges. Corners a bit bumped, external hinges a bit rubbed with some flaking and the upper hinge starting a bit. Early marginal notes throughout, many trimmed by an earlier binder. Some scattered foxing, marginal dampstain affecting leaves 141-144 (not affecting text).

With the ownership inscription of Jean Grolier on the final text leaf, "Jo. Grolierii Lugdenen et amicorum." Grolier was known to have owned at least two copies of this edition of the Adagiorum, one other in a Picard binding.

From its initial publication in 1500, Erasmus’ Adages went through numerous editions, as he regularly and substantially added to them up until his death in 1536. Renouard, 89.2; Palau, 55; Naiditch et al 187. Provenance: Herman and Aveve Cohen, Chiswick Book Shop.

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Item #1 and #2: The Allen Press Bibliography

Chiswick Catalog 106, #1: Allen Press Bibliography. With art work and sample pages from previous editions. Title page in 3 colors, approx 100 pages with index. Folio, Cloth spine and Fortuny cloth covers, boxes. Greenbrae C: Allen Press, 1981. 1/140 copies. Hand-printed in Romanee type on handmade paper, specifically watermarked for this edition.

#2: Allen Press Bibliography. A facsimile of the rare limited edition with 9 original leaves and additions to date. Checklist of ephemera by D. Steven Corey and Ruth Yeaman. Folio, cloth. 122 pages with index and colophon. Book Club of California (and Allen press) 1985. 1/750. With prospectus.

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This is a partial listing of books currently available through the Chiswick Bookshop (1935-2001). All bibliographic listings were made by the Shop's proprietors, Herman and Viv Cohen.