RIVIERE & SON, binders . DICKENS, CHARLES. The Posthumous Papers of the Pickwick Club, 1930, green morocco, covers with gold-tooled borders incorporating small heart tools, upper cover with Kelliegram-style scene after one of Brock's illustrations in variously colored inlaid morocco, caption gilt-lettered beneath, gilt-blocked bust of Dickens within wreath on lower cover, spine in six gilt-panelled compartments, turn-ins gilt, g.e., gilt-stamped signature on upper turn-in , 16 color halftone plates after C. E. Brock -- QUINTUS HORATIUS FLACCUS. Opera, John Pine 1733-37, 2 vols., 8vo-sized folio, eighteenth-century English red goatskin, covers panelled in gilt with border of gilt floral tools, spines gilt in six compartments, black calf lettering-pieces, board edges with intermittent black calf onlays matching red marbled areas on edges (the remaining areas gilt), vol. 1 upper inner hinge cracked, lacking the folding letterpress "List of Antiques" in vol. 1, faint offsetting , second issue, engraved throughout, frontispiece, numerous vignettes, several full-page illustrations, Rothschild 1548, morocco presentation bookplate from T. F. Heathcote to his adoptive son T. Heathcote Tragett -- HERBERT RAILTON artist . CHARLES LAMB. Last Essays of Elia, 1888, 2 vols., parchment-backed boards, edges untrimmed , no. 23 of 100 copies for England from a total edition of 200, TEN FINE MARGINAL PEN-AND-INK DRAWINGS BY HERBERT RAILTON in addition to the 6 published photogravure illustrations, Railton's presentation inscription on vol. 1 flyleaf to F. T. Davies, dated 31 Oct. 1888 -- DA LORIA NORMAN illuminator . Saint AUGUSTINE. The Confessions, 1900, 2 vols., green morocco, covers and spine panelled in gilt, t.e.g., others uncut , no. 133 of 400 copies for sale in England, printed in red and black, wood engraved frontispiece, title border, and initials, RICHLY ILLUMINATED IN INK AND WATERCOLOR WITH GOLD AND SILVER PAINT, text pages each with different marginal abstract or representational decoration, full-page illuminations at the head of each book, one full-page watercolor "plate" in vol. 1, the designs showing an exceptionally fecond imagination, ms. colophon leaf stating that the illumination was executed in England and the U.S. from 1912 to 1920; all London, the last two printed at the Chiswick Press, together 4 works in 7 vols., 8vo except as noted, mostly minor wear to extremities, all but the 2nd in cloth slipcases , the 3rd and 4th LIMITED EDITIONS. (7)
RIVIERE & SON, binders . DICKENS, CHARLES. The Posthumous Papers of the Pickwick Club, 1930, green morocco, covers with gold-tooled borders incorporating small heart tools, upper cover with Kelliegram-style scene after one of Brock's illustrations in variously colored inlaid morocco, caption gilt-lettered beneath, gilt-blocked bust of Dickens within wreath on lower cover, spine in six gilt-panelled compartments, turn-ins gilt, g.e., gilt-stamped signature on upper turn-in , 16 color halftone plates after C. E. Brock -- QUINTUS HORATIUS FLACCUS. Opera, John Pine 1733-37, 2 vols., 8vo-sized folio, eighteenth-century English red goatskin, covers panelled in gilt with border of gilt floral tools, spines gilt in six compartments, black calf lettering-pieces, board edges with intermittent black calf onlays matching red marbled areas on edges (the remaining areas gilt), vol. 1 upper inner hinge cracked, lacking the folding letterpress "List of Antiques" in vol. 1, faint offsetting , second issue, engraved throughout, frontispiece, numerous vignettes, several full-page illustrations, Rothschild 1548, morocco presentation bookplate from T. F. Heathcote to his adoptive son T. Heathcote Tragett -- HERBERT RAILTON artist . CHARLES LAMB. Last Essays of Elia, 1888, 2 vols., parchment-backed boards, edges untrimmed , no. 23 of 100 copies for England from a total edition of 200, TEN FINE MARGINAL PEN-AND-INK DRAWINGS BY HERBERT RAILTON in addition to the 6 published photogravure illustrations, Railton's presentation inscription on vol. 1 flyleaf to F. T. Davies, dated 31 Oct. 1888 -- DA LORIA NORMAN illuminator . Saint AUGUSTINE. The Confessions, 1900, 2 vols., green morocco, covers and spine panelled in gilt, t.e.g., others uncut , no. 133 of 400 copies for sale in England, printed in red and black, wood engraved frontispiece, title border, and initials, RICHLY ILLUMINATED IN INK AND WATERCOLOR WITH GOLD AND SILVER PAINT, text pages each with different marginal abstract or representational decoration, full-page illuminations at the head of each book, one full-page watercolor "plate" in vol. 1, the designs showing an exceptionally fecond imagination, ms. colophon leaf stating that the illumination was executed in England and the U.S. from 1912 to 1920; all London, the last two printed at the Chiswick Press, together 4 works in 7 vols., 8vo except as noted, mostly minor wear to extremities, all but the 2nd in cloth slipcases , the 3rd and 4th LIMITED EDITIONS. (7)
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