Norwalk, Connecticut: Easton Press, 1978. Limited Collector's Edition. Hardcover. Navy blue full-leather boards with gilt lettering and illustration; there are four compartments and three raised bands on the spine; textblock is fully gilted; cloth bookmark; ix, 357 pp.; illustration. One in the series of "The 100 Greatest Books Ever Written,"..... More
Norwalk, Connecticut: The Easton Press, 1979. Hardcover. red leather boards w/ decorative gilt design; 3 raised bands, four decorative gilt compartments. silken pastedowns & endpapers. 478 pgs w/ bw illustrations, color frontis. all edges gilt. Illustrated by John Flaxman. Alexander Pope's translation. More
Philadelphia: J.B. Lippincott, 1881. Hardcover. Embossed, gilt lettering and art covers and spine; red cloth. Text block gilt edges. 550 pp, illustrations. Rare find - Philadelphia edition. Memoir with explanatory notes and illustrations. More
New York: D. Appleton, 1855. Hardcover. A brown casebound book with gilt text on the spine. Light blue end pages. xvi, 485 pages; contains several black-and-white illustrations. More
Philadelphia: J.J. Woodward, 1830. Hardcover. Tan leather boards. Red title block with gilt lettering on spine. Marbled bookblock, inside fornt/back cover, end pages. xlii, [1], 44-484 p. Frontispiece portrait of Pope. More
Washington, DC: Freer Gallery of Art, 1970. first. Softbound. Blue printed wraps w/ black printing. 85 pp., profusely illustrated with 40 bw plates. Photo is of a previous edition; this is the 1970 edition with blue wraps. More
Washington, DC: Smithsonian Institution, Freer Gallery of Art, 1956. Softcover. Blue wraps, 142 BW plates/pages. Issued in conjunction with Pope's 194-pp. book, "Chinese Porcelains from the Ardebil Shrine," which outlines this collection from Iran. Fortunately each entry includes a description and estimation of date, which makes this paperback a handy..... More
Washington, DC: Smithsonian Institution, 1967. Hardcover. Green cloth, white dj. 638 pp., including 102 plates (8 in color) with 91 bw figures. Heavy (8 pounds) and will require extra postage. This is for Volume I ONLY, the catalogue with the plates and other illustrations of the bronzes. With a list..... More
New York: The Asia Society, Inc., 1966. Hardcover. Blue cloth with greyish ill. DJ. 147 pp. 150+ bw and color plates. Uncommon hardcover. Brief essay about the genesis of Adolf's collection. Catolog entries are annotated. More
New York: Limited Editions Club, 1931. Hardcover. Red cloth boards with gilt lettering on spine. Yellow slipcase, paste on title block on spine. Rough cut book block. xiv, 548 pages. number 1353 of 1500 copies. Fifteen hundred copies have been printed ... Each copy is signed by the designer J...... More
Hartford: William Andrus, 1843. Hardcover. Hand-tooled leather-covered boards (image of cathedral with floral window). 67 pp. with no illustrations. AEG. 3x5 inches. Beautiful, intricate tooling on covers. Bolingbroke, and English politician, aristocrat, and philosopher was a supporter of the Jacobite uprising and led a very active life in exile, back..... More
Washington, DC: Smithsonian Institution Freer Gallery of Art, 1956. Hardcover. Blue cloth, blue ill. DJ. xv, 194 pp. 142 bw plates. Exhaustive survey of 200 pieces in the collection, which, at the time of this book's publication, was housed in the Tehran Museum and in the Sarayi at Istanbul. Plates..... More
Washington, D.C. Smithsonian Institution, 1967, 1969. Hardcover. 2 vols. Green cloth, gilt letters on spines, gilt decorations on front covers; white or black dust jackets. 895 total pp. 20 color, 498 bw plates. The complete two-volume set providing an annotated and illustrated catalogue of 122 pieces (volume I) and an..... More
