Waters w g translator (19 risultati)

Hardcover. Very Good with no dust jacket; Edgewear. Spine faded. Volume four of four only. ; Italian Novelists; 316 pages.

Hardcover. Very Good with no dust jacket; Edgewear. Spine faded. Volume three of four only. ; Italian Novelists; 401 pages.

Hardcover. Condizione: Very Good. No Jacket. Limited Edition. Limited edition 782/1000. Printed on Venetian Deckel Edge paper. Beige cloth boards with gold illustration on face and lettering on spine. Binding is tight and square. Pages are clean throughout. Gilded top outer page edges. Illustrated. "Consists of an exquisite and delightful collection of humorous witty and mirthful conversations, fables and enigmas including singing music and dancing.". …

Hardcover. Condizione: Good. No Jacket. Limited Edition. Good condition 2 volume hardcover set. Number 797 of 1250 numbered and registered copies. 267 and 295 pages. Volume 1 has slit in front endpaper. Previous owner's bookplate is attached to front endpaper.

Hardcover. Condizione: Very Good -. Limited Edition. Limited Edition #211 of 1,000 copies. This is volumes 1 to 4 (of 7). Publisher's cloth with gold gilt illustrations and lettering on spines and front covers. Privately Printed for Members of the Society of Bibliophiles. Frontispieces (some with tissue guards). Illustrated. Some inner hinges split. xii, 402; 376; 404; 318pp. Full refund if not satisfied.…

Hardcover. Condizione: Very Good. No Jacket. 2 volume set of collection of 500 stories by Masuccio written in the 15th century and translated by W.G. Waters. Illustrated by E.R. Hughes, Volume 1 contains 8 full page illustrations and Volume 2 contains 10 illustrations, all protected by tissue paper. Brown cloth boards have shelf wear and edges are bumped. A small chip out of the spine of volume 1. Pages are sunned but clean. Size 8x11.5". E.R. Hughes (illustratore). …

Condizione: Fair. Prompt Shipment, shipped in Boxes, Tracking PROVIDEDFair condition with yellowing pages and cracked spine. No dust jacket. Cover worn with small tears in spine. Volume 4.

Hardcover. Condizione: Very Good-. No Jacket. Books have been moderately worn, rubbed, and soiled. Spines are moderately faded.

Hardcover. Condizione: Near Fine. No Jacket. Limited Edition. A super set of two volumes of this Limited edition of "One thousand copies for England and America" this being number 901 which is written in the space provided in vol. one. The boards of both volumes look lovely and bright and are quite striking with their subtle patterned design. The title lettering is nice and crisp on the spines, as is the publishers "LB" motif on the front boards. Fabulous tissue guarded full page plates throughout each volume are all present. There is a little rubbing and light wear at the extremities but not at all prominent. There's some light to moderate foxing and toning to the prelims but nothing at all severe. A really beautiful set. E.R. Hughes (illustratore).…

Hardcover. Condizione: Good. Limited Edition. 2-volume set. Limited edition of 210 copies, of which this is number 102. First English language edition. 4to. Vol. I 276 pages; Vol. II 323 pages. Quarter bound in vellum over brown paper-covered boards; titles in red on spine. Japanese vellum pages. Ten photogravure plates protected by tissue guards in each volume. Boards marked and stained; rubbed, especially along edges; corners bumped; vellum soiled, darkened on spine; ends of spine crushed and with small tears in Vol. II. Endpapers toned; pencil bookseller inscription on front pastedown in Vol. I; offsetting from plates on tissue guards; otherwise pages almost entirely clean. Binding firm. E.R. Hughes (illustratore). …

Hardcover. Condizione: Good. Masuccio Salernitano; Straparola & Giovanni Fiorentino. All have worn boards with some fading and chipping to the spines, one loose tissue guard, bookseller's pencil marks. Shipped from the UK in recyclable card packaging. Edward Robert Hughes (illustratore).

Hardcover. Condizione: Very Good. Limited Edition. Very good condition gray cloth boards with elaborate bright front cover gold illustration and faded gold spine lettering and gold illustration. Includes List of Illustrations and Table of Contents at the rear of the volume. The upper page edges are gilt with the two other sides uncut. Includes five (5) black-and-white illustrated plates, each with descriptive fine tissue guard overlays plus a black-and-white frontispiece plate also with a descriptive fine tissue guard overlay. This is Volume III only of a four volume set, which in turn is part of a larger seven volume set. This is a limited edition, printed on Venetian Deckel Edge Paper is limited to One Thousand Copies, this being Copy No. 474. The front hinge has started, yet the spine is tight and square. Virtually all pages are in fine condition with the slightest hint of toning to the page perimeters. "The Facetious Nights of Giovanni Francesco Straparola consists of an exquisite and delightful collection of humorous witty and mirthful conversations fables and enigmas including singing, music, and dancing. during the thirteen nights of the carnival at Venice as related by ten charming and accomplished damsels and several nobles, men of learning, illustrious and honorable gentlemen of not at the entertainments of merriment and pleasure.given by the Princess Lucretia at her beautiful palace at Murano." - from the Preliminary Page. Hughes, E.R., A.R.W.S., London (illustratore).…

Set Hardcover. Condizione: Very Good. No Jacket. NUMBERED. (1903) 8vo. Two Volumes. LIMITED NUMBERED EDITION, 1 of 1250 copies. Illustrated. Fading and staining to pasted labels. Rubbing and fraying to spine ends. T.e.g. Darkening to spines. Some overopening throughout. Faint rippling to text. VG/VG. THE SET. …

Vellum. Condizione: Very Good+. Condizione sovraccoperta: No Jacket Issued. First Edition. 2 Vols - 294pp/illus and 352pp/illus. #313 of 1,000. "The novellino is a collection of fifty stories, each one told by the writer separately, without any striving after continuity. Masuccio does not trouble himself like certain others of the Novellieri, to construct a setting for his work, and to feign that the tales are told in turn by the work, and to feign that the tales are told in turn by the various members of a gentle company brought together by hazard. He tells us that all his novels are true, and that in many cases he is only setting down what he has learnt by the evidence of his senses.". Limited Numbered Copy.…

Hardcover. Condizione: Good. Volume II only. This edition was printed on Venetian Deckel Edge Paper, and was limited to 1000 copies, this copy was number 902. Grey cloth boards with gilt illustrations and lettering along with a gilt top edge of pages. Unmarked with the exception of names written on the front endpaper and flyleaf. Pages are slightly yellowed. Cover has wear and bumping on corners and edge of spine. Some discoloration and soil spots throughout the cover.…

Hardcover. Condizione: Good. Waters, W. G., translator. THE ITALIAN NOVELISTS. London: Privately printed for members of The Society of Bibliophiles MDCCCC1 (translates1891.) Edition limited to 1000 copies. [All seven copies have the same red ink No. 665 of 1000 copies on the limitation page.] Volume 1: 402pp.Volume 2: 376pp. Volume 3: 404pp. Volume 4: 318pp. [Volumes 1, 2, 3, 4 are "THE FACETIOUS NIGHTS OF STRAPAROLA." All four volumes ofthe seven are illustrated, with red imprinted tissue-guards, by Jules Gardier and E. R. Hughes. Volumes 5, 6, 7: 'THE PECORONE OFSERGIOVANNI." All three volumes of the seven are illustrated, with red imprinted tissues guards, by E. R. Hughes. [Volume 5: 278pp. Volume 6:323pp. Volume 7: 329pp.] All seven volumes are uniform in appearance. Each of the seven volumes' title-pages are imprinted partially in red(rubicated). All seven with Venetian Deckel Edge laid paper. All seven volumes are 8vo (6 wide x 8 1/2" tall) with top edges gilt and other edges.…

Cloth. Condizione: Very Good. First edition. The first translated editions of these limited edition volumes, illustrated throughout. Five volumes. First thus. Translated by William George Waters, a British scholar, biographer, and historian of the Italian Renaissance. Illustrated by Edward Robert Hughes, a British painter, who primarily worked in watercolours. This set includes: The Nights of Straparola, 1894. Complete in two volumes. Limited to one thousand copies, unnumbered. Each volume is illustrated with a frontispiece and eight plates. Collated complete. A collection of seventy-five stories by Italian author and fairy-tale collector Giovanni Francesco Straparola, modeled after Boccaccio's Decameron. It is considered significant as the first European storybook to contain fairy-tales. The Novellino of Masuccio, 1895. Complete in two volumes. Limited to one thousand copies, of which this is number four hundred and ninety-six. Volume one is illustrated with eight plates. Volume two is illustrated with ten plates. Collated complete. The fifty short stories of fifteenth century Italian poet, Masuccio Salernitano, each prefaced by a letter of dedication to a famous person and with an epilogue containing the "moral" of the story. The Pecorone of Ser Giovanni, 1897. Limited to six hundred copies of which this is number four hundred and twenty-seven. Illustrated with eleven plates. Collated complete. An Italian novella written by Florentine writer Giovanni Fiorentino, said to be an influence on Shakespeare's Merchant of Venice. In the original full cloth binding. Externally, smart with light rubbing and minor bumping to the extremities. Light fading to the spine with the odd small mark to the boards. Light damp marks to the tail of the spines. Front hinge starting but firm to The Pecorone. Internally, firmly bound. Pages are very bright with the odd small spot or handling mark. Age toning to the endpapers. Very Good. E. R. Hughes (illustratore). book.…

Hardcover. Condizione: Near Fine. Limited Edition. 7 Volumes (8vo). Privately printed for members of the Society of Bibliophiles, London, 1898. Sold together are two sets. The Percorone of Ser Giovanni, limitation no. 2/500, a 3 volume set. Facetious Nights of Straparola, limitation no. 129/500, a 4 volume set. Illustrations by Jules Garner and E.R. Hughes. First English translation, from Italian, by W.G. Waters. Green publisher's cloth hard covers, gilt title and ornamentation on spine covers and front boards, leaves are gilt atop with remainder of deckled edges, frontispiece guarded by tissue, illustrated text pages. Dimensions: 9.75 W x 6.25 D x 9 H inches. Condition: Near fine; faintly sunned spine covers, some gently bumped spine crowns, extremities effected by light edge wear, strong square spines, light age-toned text pages, ink ownership inscription atop title page, otherwise fine.…

Limited Edition. Octavo. In three volumes limited to only 100 copies, this is copy #3, and is the first translation into English, illustrated with 12 hand-colored plates by E.R. Hughes, printed on Japanese vellum, bound in 3/4 red morocco over marbled paper covered boards with matching endpapers, spine stamped in gilt, all edges gilt, spine ends chipped, short split to leather on upper joint of vol. I but not cracked through binding. The color plates are quite striking. A collection of Shakespearian romance novels. …