Decorated Bindings from Ravenroost Books

New York and Boston: H.M. Caldwell Co., 1900. 178pgs. Very Good+ condition, very attractive little green cloth hardcover, bright gilt lettering and decoration to front and spine. Top edge of text block also gilt, sides and bottoms of pages untrimmed. Binding tight, barely discernable shelfwear to cloth at spine ends. Publisher's insignia for Oliver Goldsmith on front endpaper. [See also… Read more about this item

Birmingham, Alabama: The Classics of Medicine Library, Gryphon Editions, 1986. 4to. 107 pgs. Very Fine condition black leather hardcover with gilt decoration and embossment to covers and spine with die-stamped 22k gold. All edges of textblock gilt. Gold marker ribbon bound into headband, marbled endpapers. Pristine condition of the privately printed English language edition translated from the German by Rosemarie… Read more about this item

London: Henry Frowde, Oxford University Press xxi.278pgs. Not dated, circa 1900. Very Good green cloth hardcover, gilt lettering and decoration to spine, top edge gilt. Attractive pocket-sized book. Clean and unmarked, Decorated endpapers, original red ribbon page marker present but detached. Frontis portrait. A preface and preparatory note to the edition of 1890 is followed by The Suppliants, The Persians,… Read more about this item

Boston: Houghton Mifflin and Company, 1884. xiii.543pgs. Brown cloth hardcover with gilt and black decoration to front and spine. Attractive, ompact and sound. Unmarked but for previous owner neatly penned on front enpaper. Includes a small clipping of a prayer by Frances Ripley Havergal (1876-1839) a religious poet. Pages slightly and evenly age toned. Closed tear to the middle of… Read more about this item

New York: Charles Scribners Sons, 1902. 299pgs. Very Good harcover, decorative binding signed MA, navy cloth with attractive decoration in gilt and green by Margaret Armstrong on front board and spine. Attractive period bookplate with the poem "If thou art borrowed by a friend..." and gift inscription [to Dr. Jno. S. Niles by his nephew Frank L. Niles) on… Read more about this item

William Heinemann Ltd., London. 2nd impression, 1928., 1928. 12mo. 347 pgs. Very Good hardbound. Green cloth, gilt lettering, light edgewear. Owner name and foxing to front free endpaper, crinkle/chip (printer imperfection) to rear endpaper. 1/2" closed tear to bottom margin pg 45. Clean and sound copy. #456. Second Impression.. Hard Cover. Very Good. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾"… Read more about this item

New York: Charles Scribner's Sons., 1911. 12 mo. 307 pgs. Very Good hardcover. Top edge gilt. Red cloth, gilt spine and cover decoration. Light edge and corner wear and spotty fading to cloth. Illustrated frontis and seven additional black and white plates by George Gibbs. Text clean and unmarked. #223.. Later Printing. Cloth. Very Good/No Jacket. Illus. by George Gibbs.… Read more about this item