Prize bindings (5 Ergebnisse)

8°. XVII, 584; VIII pp., 1 f., 563 pp. Polished full calf bindings amply gilt, marbled endpapers and fore-edge New edition, first published in 1908 with the structure of the government, administration, the parties, law courts, the Empire etc. - Nice set of two elegant prize bindings for the student of history Foster Franklin, awarded in 1913 by the University of Glasgow, endpaper with bookplate, covers with coat of arms and motto: via - veritas - vita. - Just slightly rubbed, inside clean, nice and very decorative.…

Hardcover. Zustand: Good. TWO VOLUMES. 6mo. (7.32 x 4.3 inches). Vol.1; xii, 287pp - Vol.2; iv, 275pp. Bound in contemporary full tree calf with gilt ruling and red morocco volume numbers and title labels to spines. Trinity College Dublin arms in gilt to all four boards. Copper engraved College prize labels mounted onto the front pastedown endpapers of each volume. The books were presented to Gulielmo (William) Spedding in 1830. --- Reverend William Spedding (24th March, 1803 - 14th June, 1870) spent 25 years as the Military Chaplain to the Artillery Garrison, co. Cork, and then became the Rector of Killencoole, co. Louth, Ireland. ---- Some foxing to many pages and area of loss to the outer corner of one leaf in volume one, otherwise text complete. Rubbing to edges and chipping to the spines of the bindings but overall a good set. -- More photos available on request.…

Zustand: Near Fine. London: Longmans, Green, and Co., 1888. Authorised Edition. Octavo; bound in smooth green calf; five raised bands; leather spine label; prize binding decorated in gilt featuring the emblem of the Worshipful Company of Grocers; marbled edges and endpapers; 898pp. Light rubbing to boards; binding sound; Near Fine. Prize dedication leaf reads "Presented by The Master of the Grocers Company to Francis Herbert Campion Harris, as a Special Prize. "To the most deserving boy in the Grocers Company's School, Hackney Downs. Han N. Pownall, Master of the Company. July 28, 1893." Grocers cover emblem features a camel, alluding to the time when the Guilds of Pepperers and Spicers, who later merged to form the Grocers, procured their goods over land from the Middle East and Near and Central Asia.…

Leyden, S. and J. Luchtmans, 1768, C,276,(15) pag., original full leather with a double gilt fillet-line along borders and central gilt supralibros of Leyden on both covers (h.9,4 x w. 5,5 cm.), spine gilt with a red morocco title-shield, remnants of silk ties. = Schoolprize binding (without the prize) with the gilt supralibros of Lugduni Batavorum (Leyden) on both covers. 'De figuris sententiarum et elocutionis' (On the figures of speech), a rhetorical treatise of the Roman rhetor Publius Rutilius Lupus, first century A.D., is originally an abridgment of 'peri schêmatôn', a work of the Greek orator Gorgias of Athens, who must not be confused with the famous Gorgias of Leontini, the contemporary of Socrates. This Gorgias of Athens is also known as the rhetor who taught Cicero's son Marcus at Athens in 44 B.C. (Cic. Fam. 16,21,6) The chief value of the treatise lies in the numerous renderings of abstracts, and translations of striking passages from the Greek orators, thus preserving much what is otherwise lost. Already in the 'editio princeps' of 1519 it was printed together with 'De figuris' of Aquila Romanus. The first half of this 1768 edition of Ruhnken contains the text of Rutilius Lupus, the second half the 'De figuris sententiarum et elocutionis liber' of the Latin grammarian Aquila Romanus, who flourished in the second half of the 3rd century A.D. He recommends Demosthenes and Cicero as models, but he takes his examples almost exclusively from Cicero. The dates of the Latin rhetorician Julius Rufinianus are uncertain. He produced a kind of supplementary treatise, augmented with material from other sources. Both took their material from a lost work of the Greek rhetorican Alexander Numenius, 2nd cent. B.C. These 3 works were edited with commentary by the Dutch scholar of German origin David Ruhnkenius, or David Ruhnken, 1723-1798. In 1757 he was appointed at the University of Leyden to assist professor Tiberius Hemsterhuis as Reader in Greek, and in 1761 he succeeded to the Latin chair vacated by Oudendorp. The great classical scholar U. von Wilamowitz-Moellendorff, 1848-1931, calls him the 'Princeps criticorum'. The German scholar F.A. Wolf, 1758-1824, dedicated his famous 'Prolegomena' of 1795 to him. 'Alles was Ruhnken veröffentlicht hat, ist in seinen Grenzen tadellos. So der homerische Demeterhymnus (.), das Lexicon des Timaeus, Rutilius Lupus mit einer Historia critica oratorum Graecorum, die für die hellenistische Zeit nützliche Notizen zusammenträgt'. (U. von Wilamowitz-Moellendorff, 'Geschichte der Philologie', Leipzig/ Berlin, 1921, p.39/40).Lacking the prize; ex-libris on upper pastedown; owner's emntry on first free endpaper; eges rubbed/ worn; upper joint split; silk ties lacking.…

243 x 153 mm. (9 1/2 x 6"). xx, [8], 401, [31] pp.Edited by Henry Homer, from the edition of Charles Rollin. SUPERB CONTEMPORARY RED STRAIGHT-GRAIN MOROCCO, GILT, covers with frame of shells, flowers, and volutes, arms of Henry Homer at center, smooth spine divided into compartments by plain rules and chain rolls, compartments with cornucopia centerpiece overflowing with wheat sheaves, volutes at corners, gilt lettering, Greek key roll on turn-ins, pale blue watered silk endleaves, all edges gilt. With engraved frontispiece portait of Henry Homer after Sylvester Harding, dated 1791. Front pastedown with late 19th century Jolliffe armorial bookplate; front flyleaf with ink Latin inscription presenting this volume to Charles Jolliffe, as a school prize for diligence at Reading School, signed by headmaster Richard Valpy and dated 15 Nov. 1799. âSpine uniformly darkened to maroon, rear board just a little marked, portrait somewhat foxed, but a very attractive copy, clean and fresh internally, in a considerably appealing unrestored contemporary binding showing little wear. This work, which sets forth a still-influential theory of education, appears here in a handsome binding that was originally an appropriate prize for a diligent pupil, awarded by a headmaster of considerable distinction. A rhetorician of Spanish origin, Quintilian (ca. 35-ca. 95 A.D.) was a respected teacher in Rome, where his pupils included Pliny the younger and the grandnephews of Emperor Domitian. After his retirement, he wrote this treatise as a manual for educating an orator, from early childhood through young adulthood; a complete manuscript of the work was discovered by Poggio Bracciolini, and it first appeared in print in 1470. The bulk of the volume covers the matter and manner of oratory, while the first two books (of 12) contain important early comments on the theories of education; the final two books constitute a critical history of earlier classical literature, in which Quintilian ranks authors in their respective disciplines, setting Homer and Virgil at the top of Greek and Latin literature, respectively. Editor Henry Homer (1753-91) was a fellow of Emmanuel College, Cambridge, and a brilliant classical scholar who produced editions of Livy, Tacitus, Sallust, Cicero, Pliny, Ovid, and Julius Caesar in his brief life. He died before our Quintilian was finished, and the work was completed by his brothers, Arthur and Philip Bracebridge. Our binding is identical to a copy of Homer's edition of Sallust in the collection of Sir Paul Getty at Wormsley Library. It is possible that Henry's brothers had some copies of his works thus bound as a tribute to him. Our volume was presented in 1799 to Charles Jolliffe, perhaps the son of Thomas Samuel Jolliffe, who was killed at Waterloo in 1815. This possibility is supported by the fact that the volume came from the library of Ammerdown House in Somerset, built by Thomas Jolliffe in 1788 and still the seat of the Jolliffe family, raised to the peerage as Barons Hylton. At the time our binding was presented, Reading School was just reaching the height of its prosperity and influence under the leadership of Richard Valpy (1754-1836). In the years since his 1781 appointment, DNB tells us, he had reviatalized the struggling school, raising the number of students to 120, "of whom many were the sons of Berkshire magnates and gentry." Despite being a strict disciplinarian and "a mighty flogger," Valpy was "held in high esteem and affection" by his pupils. He was most respected for his scholarship and produced texts used for Greek and Latin instruction throughout the country. Utterly devoted to the school, he turned down two opportunities to become a bishop and declined the headmaster position at the renowned Rugby School to reamin at Reading, which he served for 50 years.…