49 “Perhaps The Most Important Landmark In Doré’s Career” 70(DORÉ, Gustave). The Holy Bible. London, Paris, and New York, circa 1884. Two volumes. Large quarto (9-1/2 by 12 inches), original full black morocco gilt. $6000 Later edition of Gustave Doré’s great illustrated Bible, splendidly illustrated by him with 220 full-page woodengravings and beautifully bound in contemporary, elaborate morocco-gilt. “In the 1870s, The Doré Bible was perhaps the most treasured (and expensive) book in the world” (Malan, 81). “Its original reception was truly remarkable… A second edition of the Bible was called for almost at once… Editions appeared in almost every European country… One of the first off the mark was an English edition from Cassell, Petter and Galpin, 1867. This caused an even greater sensation than the French edition, and the demand among collectors for any and everything by Doré was clamorous” (Muir, 224). This later edition of Doré’s Holy Bible is printed in a slightly more manageable quarto format rather than the first edition’s folio format. This edition also contains 220 large engraved plates rather than the 238 plates found in the earliest editions. Scattered foxing. A near-fine copy. “We Are Apt To Be Very Pert Censuring Others, Where We Will Not Endure Advice Our Selves” 71PENN, William. Some Fruits of Solitude in Reflections & Maxims Relating to the Conduct of Life. London, 1693. 12mo, early papermache boards with an image of an angel on-laid over gold cloth, rebacked. $5800 Second edition, published the same year as the first, of one of Penn’s best-known works, in striking papermache binding. “The topics covered in this collection range from education, children, family and right marriage, to sins such as pride, luxury, avarice, and jealousy... This slender volume ranks with No Cross, No Crown (1682) and the Essay Towards Peace as one of Penn’s most popular works… Tolles referred to Some Fruits as the product of Penn’s ‘matured philosophy of life in the form of maxims or aphorisms—droplets of clear wisdom, as it were, distilled from a lifetime of sober thought and dedicated action’” (Bronner & Fraser 96). Title on title page faintly underlined in red. Interior fairly clean, license leaf remargined, errata leaf with some edge-wear. Beautiful and distinct paper-mache boards with some edge-wear. Rare.
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