London: J. Hughs, 1748. First edition. Hardcover. 12 {2} 400 pages. 16" x 10.5". First collected edition. List of Subscribers, engraved vignette at title, and several elegantly engraved headpieces, woodcut headpieces, and initials. Born within a year of Shakespeare and dying when Milton was twenty three. CBEL Vol.IV, p.168. "Drayton..... More
London: J. Wright, 1798. First edition. Wraps. 23 pages. 9 x 5.5 cm. Patriotic tract to urge support for the Crown against the French during the current hostilities, and much admonition regarding France's attempts to have America make common cause with the Republic against England. More
London: John Evans and Sons, 1796. First edition. Wraps. 8 pages. 8.5 x 5.5 cm. Unopened. Blind ex-library stamp front cover of Nottingham Public Library. John Evans whose publishing history included a good number of Christian religious tracts. Woodcut illustrations page 4 and 8. More
London: John Evans, ca 1768. First edition. Wraps. 8 pages. 11 x 6.9 cm. John Evans whose publishing history included a good number of Christian religious tracts. Signed on behalf of the Brethren, by Robert Hall. Printed by T. Luckman. More
London: Boone, T. Brettell, Boone, 1863, 1850, 1864. Hardcover. Pagination as per titles noted above and provided retrospectively -- [2], viii, [2] 58 pp. + 42 numbered engraved plates. Engraved frontis. [2]. v. [1] 50 pp. + seven double-page engraved plates; [2], 5-62 pp. + 2 double-page plates, [2] 16..... More
London: R. Sayer and J. Bennett, c.1780. First edition. leather_bound. Unpaginated. A myriad display of curlicues pertaining to alphabet design elegantly presented. Tiny double pin holes at one quarter inch from the bottom of the page not affecting page image. Each plate with embossed borders. Interiors contents clean and fresh..... More
London: Henry & Co., 1896-1897. First edition. Hardcover. 243 (ix), 266 (vii) pages. 10.5 x 8". Complete collection of this important periodical that originated from the close artistic and literary collaboration of artists at the end of the 19th c. Illustrated throughout with 41 monochrome and colour plates and some..... More
Paris: Charles Moreau, 1925. First edition. Hardcover. Folio, 46 x 31 cm. Each part contains 32 loose as issued heliogravure full page images of Art Deco interiors, a few with two images per plate. Contributors include Maurice Dufrene,Paul Follet, René Lalique, Henri Rapin, Ruhlmann et al. An engaging presentation of..... More
Paris: Henri Charpentier, 1864. First edition. Hardcover. 64, 62, 42 pages. 19 x13 inches. 90 color lithographs (with descriptive text) and two tinted color maps: all present per Indices in the rear of each volume. Plates after Felix Benoist and Joseph Dessaix, with text by Xavier Eyma and Joseph Dessaix..... More
London: T. Payne and T. Cadell, 1796. First edition. Hardcover. xlviii 390 (4), 432 (4), 468 (4), 432 (4), 556 pages. 7 x 4 inches. List of subscribers, and six page manuscript review of the title: "Characters of the Principal Persons," in the first volume, the latter trimmed at fore-edge..... More
London: Charles Bill, 1701. First edition. leather_bound. 480 pages. [4 pages of A Table of the Statutes Publick and Private]. 12 3/4 x 8 inches. Considered to the first Parliamentary Act relating only to the Jews was as a result of an 18 year old girl being disowned by her..... More
New York: Harcourt, Brace and Company, 1929. Steichen, Edward. First edition. Hardcover. 70 pages in text. 32 x 25 cm. Limited edition, copy 27 of 925, signed by Steichen and Sandburg. Frontispiece and 48 full-page photogravure, each with titled cover sheet. The text is by Sandburg who notes, J. Walter..... More
London: A. Buego, Madien Lane, 1819. Cruikshank, George. First edition. Hardcover. 19.5 x 15 cm. The headline above the image reads, " Annual Parliaments & Universal Suffrage defeated." An early attempt and failure to promote voting rights. COHN 639. "An extremely rare pamphlet, a political squib on the Westminster Election..... More
Chicago: Art Institute of Chicago, 1978. First edition. 159 pages. Folio, 35 x 26.5 cm. Limited edition copy 52 of 100 signed in ink by Georgia O' Okeeffe, Ivan Albright, Willem de Kooning, Joan Miro (each on a separate preliminary page) and Marc Chagall, the latter in blue ink below..... More
Paris: Bernard Klein, 1952. Brianchon, Maurice. First edition. Hardcover. 49 pages in text. Folio, 38 x 29 cm. Limited edition, copy 31 from a total of 300, and one of only 30 copies on Japon with an additional etching of the cover and a suite on chine. The extra suite..... More
Newtown, Montgomeryshire: Gregynog Press, 1931. Blair Hughes-Stanton. Hardcover. 26 pages. 28 x 17.5 cm. Limited edition, copy 186 of 250 on Japanese vellum with frontispiece and six characters in costume designed and engraved on wood by Blair-Hughes Stanton. Bright, very fresh copy, wide text margins, the only blemish a slight..... More
London: Leonard Smithers And Co, 1898. First edition. Hardcover. Folio, 41.5 x 31 cm. Limited edition, copy 7 of 50, six photogravure plates with tissue guards, one plate printed in blue, and with separate title page, content leaves printed in red and black. In this effort, Beardsley dropped his severely..... More
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London: Leonard Smithers, 1897, 1899. First editions. Hardcover. 212, 209 (2) pages. 29 x 22.5 cm. First title in a limited edition of 500 and second, limited edition of 1000. Two pages of adverts in Second Book. The two volumes collect together various book and other illustrations by Beardsley, including..... More
Monte Carlo: Andre Suaret, 1948. Vuillard, Edouard. First edition. Stiff Wraps. 180 pages.32 x 24.8 cm. Sixty-seven plates with tissue guards; lithographs and engravings, many in color (printed by Mourlot), some are double-paged. Limited edition, copy 2452 of 2500. Vuillard contributed to the "L'Estampe originale which appeared between 1893 and..... More
Waltham Saint Lawrence: Golden Cockerel Press, 1924. Gibbings, Robert. Boards. 64 pages. 4to, 27 x 19 cm. Twenty wood engravings by Robert Gibbings. Music drawn by Glayds Evans. The third book under Gibbings' direction of the Press; this one printed in red and black using Caslon Old Face. Limited edition..... More
London: Printed by Samuel Leigh, 1820. Rowlandson, Thomas. First editions. leather_bound. 14 1/2 x 8.5 cm. iv pages including title and advertisement. Fifty-four hand-colored plates by Rowlandson: a panoply of city life, the costumes of street vendors through Rowlandson's colorful, often affectionate delineation's of human character. The plates are related..... More
London: Country Life Press, 1938. Ravilious, Eric. First edition. Boards. 102 pages. 23.3 x 15.3 cm. Wood engraved title vignette and twenty four color lithographed illustrations by Ravilious of English shop fronts most of them in London -- an infinite variety from an undertaker to a baker to an oyster..... More
Paris: H. Piazza, 1925. Szyk, Arthur. Nouvelle edition. leather_bound. 49 pages in text. 32 x 16.5 cm. Limited edition, copy 179 of 775. French and Hebrew text. Printed in red and black. Decorative title in rose and gold, 19 color collotype plates with tissue guards, calligraphy, historiated initials and head-..... More
Np: Np, Np. Leetch, John. Hardcover. Description reads: NO CONSEQUENCE......" I say Jack! Whose that come to grief in the ditch?" "Only the Parson." "Oh leave him there he won't be wanted until next Sunday!" Frame is 37 x 28 inches, with image 23.5 x 15 inches in a matted..... More
Np: Np, Np. Leetch, John. Hardcover. Description reads: Mr. Jorrick's; "Come help! I say. You ugly beast!" Frame is 37 x 28 inches, with image 23.5 x 15 inches in a matted five inch border. More