New York: Grolier Club, 1921. Hardcover. 19 pages. 30 x 22 cm. Limited edition, one of 300 printed by John Henry Nash on Van Gelder paper. "It is one of as series of six books done by eminent American printers at the invitations of the Grolier Club." Bright, fresh copy..... More
Boston & New York: Houghton Mifflin, 1902. Hardcover. 19 pages. 30 x 20 cm. Limited edition, copy 42 of 300. Title page designed by Howard Pyle, and printed under the supervision of Bruce Rogers at the Riverside Press in Montaigne type on unbleached Arnold hand-made paper. Laid-in the four page..... More
London: Bertram Rota, 1937. First edition. Hardcover. 13 pages. 19 x 13 cm. Limited edition, copy 181 of 350 copies, printed from a manuscript written by the author on or about 1926. More
London & New York: John Lane & Dodd, Mead, 1927. Alastair. First edition. Hardcover. 68 pages. 32 x 26 cm. Limited edition, copy 774 of 1050. Eight full-page color lithographs by Alastair, one after p.52 signed in pencil by the artist. Pater's fictional account set in the time just after..... More
London: Golden Cockerel Press, 1953. Petts, John. Hardcover. 23 pages. 23.5 x 12 cm. Ten full-color wood-engravings by John Petts. Limited edition, copy 238 of 350 on hand-made paper. Designed by Christopher Sandford. A satire in a familiar mediaeval and anti-chivlaric tradition warning against the dangers of love -- this..... More
London: Golden Cockerel Press, 1960. Petts, John. Hardcover. 28 pages. 23.5 x 12 cm. Ten full-color wood-engravings by John Petts. Limited edition, copy 144 of 500 on mould-made paper. Designed by Christopher Sandford. A Welsh poem translated by Gwyn Williams, and a sequel to Cynwal's "Against Women." COCK-A-HOOP 210. More
London: W.H. Dalton, 1839. Second edition. Hardcover. 8 pages in text. 27.3 x 22 cm. Illustrated with large folding map, 27 x 268 cm., a lithographic panorama by Bracebridge sketched from Nature and on Zinc. Originally published 1836, a fund for building the Anglican Church (now St. Paul's) this edition..... More
Sao Paulo: Decor, 2007. First edition. Stiff Wraps. Unpaginated. 25.5 x 25.5 cm. Profusely illustrated with color plates, a series of modern interior and exterior designs for the largest metropolis of Brazil, including hotels and public edifices. Text in Portuguese and English. Laid-in are two folding plans front and black..... More
Boston: Printed by the Riverside Press for Houghton, Mifflin & Company, 1906. Hardcover. XXXIV pages. Folio, 45 x 29 cm. Limited edition, copy 205 of 220. This 11th century epic poem (chanson de geste) based on Roland and the battle of Roncevaux Pass is the oldest surviving major work of..... More
London: Victoria and Albert Museum, 1924. First edition. Wraps. 193 pages in text. 24.5 x 19 cm. 48 plates representing some of the 778 items in the catalogue. Glossary of Technical Terms. Index of Names of Artists. Interior clean, small loss (one centimeter) upper corner back cover at fore-edge. More
London: Geoffrey Bles, 1924. First edition. Hardcover. 132 pages in text. 26 x 19 cm. Color frontispiece and 49 plates printed recto only. 484 items noted. Fresh, bright copy. More
Nanking: Museum of The Institute of History and Philology, 2002. First edition. Stiff Wraps. 329 pages. 27.5 x 21.5 cm. The museum has over 400,000 items in its permanent collection, making it one of the largest in China. Especially notable is the museum's enormous collections of Ming and Qing imperial..... More
Edinburgh: National Gallery of Scotland, 1999. First edition. Stiff Wraps. 183 pages. 29.5 x 24.5 cm. Drawings from the 15th to 19th centuries. Profusion of color plates. Index of Artists. More
London: I.B. Taurus, 2003. First edition. Hardcover. 272 pages. 34 x 24.5 cm. Profusely illustrated with color plates. Index. This volume presents some of the earliest records of the region. More
Pacenza: Tip. Le. Co, 2003. First edition. Hardcover. 373 (1) pages. 30 x 24.5 cm. 384 color illustrations printed on high quality glossy stock. Furniture and their makers from the 17th century upward. Index of Names with full bibliographic detail. Text in Italian. Selling price at publication, 130.00 Euros. More
Paris: Editions Vilo, 1981. First edition. Hardcover. 230 pages. 25 x 25 cm. Host of color and black and white plates. Bibliography. Index. Text in French. More
Stockholm: Carlsson Bokforlag, 1994. Hardcover. 232 pages. 29 x 24 cm. Text in English and Swedish. Plethora of color (mostly) and black and white plates printed on quality glossy stock, presents the work of one of the premier glass artists. Index of Names. Bibliography. More
Hartford: The American Publishing Company, 1875. First edition. Hardcover. 320 pages. 22 x 17 cm. Frontispiece and a host of in text woodcuts. A collection of short stories, all fictional save one. True Williams illustrated this work as well as many others by Twain. Alcohol ended his career. Laid-in an..... More
Lucerne: Editions Facsimile, 1988. leather_bound. Introduction of 433 pages with Introduction by Francois Avril, Luisa Dunlap, and Brunsdon Yapp with 74 black and white illustrations and Index. Introduction au manuscrit lat. 18014 de la Bibliotheque nationale, Paris. Both volumes, 22 x 15.5 cm. Limited edition, copy 636 of 980. 119..... More
Atlanta: Old New York Book Shop Press, 2000. First edition. Hardcover. 30 pages. 23 x 16 cm. Limited edition, copy 47 of 265 with frontispiece engraving by Barry Moser, signed by Conroy and Moser on colophon page. Like new copy printed on Zerkall Cream mouldmade paper. More
Garden City: Doubleday & Doran, 1931. First edition. Hardcover. 404 pages. 30.5 x 21 cm. Limited edition, copy 460 of 501, and designed by Ernest Reichl. Plate numbers 143-319 with a list of plates. Part III: Checklist of all known prints of N. Currier, C. Currier, and Currier & Ives..... More
London: Studio, 1923. First edition. Hardcover. 23 pages in text. 31 z 25,5 cm. Limited edition, copy 27 of 1500. 103 plates, with nearly fifty, tipped-in, color plates with tissue guards. Illustrations after Aiken, Egerton, Howitt, Hunt, Pollard, Stubbs, Turner et al. Interior clean and fresh, spine faded, a few..... More
London: William Pickering, 1833. First edition. Hardcover. Unpaginated. 28 x 22 cm. The first of Shaw's great illustrated books. Additional illuminated half title, title page printed in red and black with 59 hand colored lithographs heightened in gold and silver, all with letterpress descriptions. Series of hand-illuminated plates recording ornaments..... More
Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1940. First edition. Hardcover. 328 pages. 29.5 x 20 cm. Signed by Peattie in ink. Index by Francis H. Allen. Clean fresh copy, spine darkened, black leather spine labels cover and spine. More
New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1910. First edition. Hardcover. 529 pages. 24.5 x 17 cm. First trade edition with Scribner seal verso of title pages. Illustrated from photographs (all with lettered tissue guards) by Kermit Roosevelt and other members of the expedition, and from drawings by Philip P. Goodwin. Appendices..... More