Paris: Np, Nd. Boards. 10 leaves. 28x 23.5 cm. Six full page chromolithograph plates. Text in French. Front cover note publisher location at 8 Rue Francois, No other identification found. Front cover nicked at lower corner, back loss at lower corners. Interior contents clean and bright. Text in French. More
London: Dean And Son, 1800-1870. Hardcover. 32 unnumbered leaves. Folio, 34 x 26 cm. Publication dates range from years Dean and Son was located at 11 Ludgate Hill. "We have prepared a Second Series of our "pretty Scrap Book," for your amusement and instruction, with a hope that you and..... More
Paris: Bernarding-Bechet Libraire-Editeur, Paris. Stiff Wraps. 10 leaves. 26 x 23 cm. Not located in OCLC. Six full page chromolithograph plates, all but one printed recto only. The author is not located in any of the standard search engines. Text in French. Nicks to corners and spine, interior contents clean..... More
London: T. Nelson And Sons, 1871. First edition. Hardcover. 71 pages. 27 x 21.5 cm. Remarkably clean and fresh interior with binding also reasonably bright. Full page chromo illustrations printed one side only. The author, a pseudonym of Charlotte Maria Tucker (1821-1893). She was a prolific English writer who penned..... More
Paris: Librarie Francaise et Anglaise de J.H. Truchy, Nd. First edition. Boards. 38 pages. 26.5 x 17 cm. With a series of multiple chromolithograph illustrations per page. The last few pages carry even more color lithographs per page. Interior contents clean and and bright. Text in French. Title page toned..... More
Paris: Bibliotheque Du Magazin D'Education Et De Recreation, ca 1870. First edition. Hardcover. 8 pages. 27.5 x 22 cm. Chromolithograph full page illustrations printed recto or verso only to assure no bleed through on blank verso or recto. Images very fresh, clean and bright. Text in French. Half title and..... More
New York: Vincent Gerald & Company, 1987. First edition. Hardcover. Unpaginated. 31 x 25.5 cm. Limited edition, copy 18 of 25 signed by the author in pencil. 30 original illustrations by Jelen printed on Toronoko paper using several mediums (mezzotint, aquatint, drypoint, linocut). Calligraphy by Jerry Kelly. The story of..... More
Baltimore: W.M. Minifie & Co., 1849. First edition. Hardcover. 127 pages 25 x 17 cm. Fifty six plates including the frontispiece. Some slight toning to text and illustrations. Owner inscription free front endpaper. HITCHCOCK 780. Two slight marring spots front cover. Binding solid. cm. Fifty-six steel engraved plates. A monumentally..... More
Newark: L.J. Hardham, Printer And Bookbinder, 1896. First edition. Hardcover. 468 pages. 30 x 25 cm. Illustrated with full page portraits and a host of black and white prints. Provides a detailed account of family generational histories with their portraits whom the author notes as "founders." Personal Index. Title page..... More
London: Printed for Edw. Gellibrand, 1680. Third edition. Hardcover. 295 pages. 16.5 x 11.5 cm. "This short, condensed compendium . . . represents the first text on mechanics available in the English language . . . describing various machines, including strange devices and possibilities, such as a land vehicle powered..... More
Sydney & Melbourne: Angus and Robertson, 1901. First edition. Hardcover. 43 pages. 19 x 13 cm. The author was consulting surgeon to the Australian Contingents during the conflict. As a member of the Royal Army Medical Corps he portrays the conditions for those wounded and the result thereof. OCLC: 36218915..... More
Paris: Hours Press, 1930. First edition. Hardcover. 17 pages. 29 x 20 cm. Limited edition, copy 74 of 200 signed in ink by Graves, printed on a hand press. Covers designed by Len Lye. The latter was a New Zealand artist was at the forefront of experimental film-making in London..... More
London: George Routledge & Sons, (1894). First edition. Hardcover. Unpaginated, 12 leaves. 10 x 7 1/2 cm. Twenty-two color illustrations printed by Edmund Evans. Greenaway notes, "I do not know why I cared most to draw children in old-fashioned dresses, except that old-fashioned things were always very pleasing to me..... More
London: George Routledge, (1888). First edition. Hardcover. Unpaginated, 12 leaves. 10 x 7 1/2 cm. Twenty-two color illustrations printed by Edmund Evans. Greenaway notes, "I do not know why I cared most to draw children in old-fashioned dresses, except that old-fashioned things were always very pleasing to me." [see: GORDON..... More
New York: O. Judd., David W. Judd, 1885. First edition. Hardcover. 121 pages. 27 x 22 cm. Complete list of locations in the New York and surrounding areas. With no hesitation we can note the interior contents are almost as new. All illustrations are in black and white. William Comstock..... More
London: Savoy (printed by F. and R. Nutt, and R. Gosling), 1839. First edition. leather_bound. (32), 284, (20). This summary of English poor laws. Index of The Principal Matters. The English Poor Laws were a system of poor relief in England and Wales, primarily developed during the 16th century and..... More
London: John Murray, 1868. First Edition, second issue. leather_bound. 411, 486 pages. 22 x 14 cm. 43 black and white illustrations. Comprehensive Index. Bound without the advertisements. The book's slow progress towards publication was due not only to its size but the author's ill health. "About half of the eight..... More
London: George Routledge, (1888). First edition. Hardcover. Unpaginated, 12 leaves. 10 x 7 1/2 cm. Twenty-two color illustrations printed by Edmund Evans. Greenaway notes, "I do not know why I cared most to draw children in old-fashioned dresses, except that old-fashioned things were always very pleasing to me." [see: GORDON..... More
Paris: Edition Arts et Metiers Graphiques, (1933). First edition. Stiff Wraps. Unpaginated. Six leaves. 25 x 19 cm. 62 photogravure plates after Brassai. Printed by Draeger with exceptional photogravure plates, this series of nocturnal Parisian views, with its evocative text by Morand, is something of an Art Deco classic. PHOTOBOOK..... More
London: George Routledge, (1889). First edition. Boards. Unpaginated, 12 leaves. 10 x 7 1/2 cm. Twenty-two color illustrations printed by Edmund Evans. Greenaway notes, "I do not know why I cared most to draw children in old-fashioned dresses, except that old-fashioned things were always very pleasing to me." [see: GORDON..... More
London: George Routledge & Sons, (1822). First edition. Hardcover. Unpaginated, 10 leaves. 13 x 9 cm. Twenty-two color illustrations printed by Edmund Evans. Greenaway notes, "I do not know why I cared most to draw children in old-fashioned dresses, except that old-fashioned things were always very pleasing to me. GORDON..... More
London: Frederick Warne, (1924). Boards. Unpaginated, 12 leaves. 8 x 10 1/2 cm. in landscape format. Twenty-two color illustrations. Greenaway notes, "I do not know why I cared most to draw children in old-fashioned dresses, except that old-fashioned things were always very pleasing to me.GORDON N. RAY, p.157. Interior bright..... More
London: George Routledge, (1885). First edition. Hardcover. 80 pages.15.2 x 12.2 cm. Forty-eight colored picture pages printed by Edmund Evans. Charles Baker in his "Bibliography of British Book Illustrators 1860-1900 notes, "It is extremely difficult to identify early issues of some of Kate Greenaway's books;" however, in this instance there..... More
New York: American Book Bindery, Inc, 1928. Cummings, E.E. First edition. Hardcover. Five double paged leaves. 20 x 13.5 cm. Frontispiece printed in red and green running length-wise with a silver iridescent accompaniment. Typography by S.A. Jacobs. Light green endpapers. Interior contents sharp, fade to covers at margins and backstrip..... More
Upper Mall, Hammersmith: Kelmscott Press, 1895. Hardcover. 256 and 239 pages. 15 x 11 cm, printed in Chaucer type, in black and red, and is uniform in size with the romances from the French. Wood engraved title, borders and initials designed by Morris. Limited edition, one of 600 copies. FORMAN..... More