Philadelphia: David McKay, 1930. First American edition. leather_bound. 141 pages. 21 x 16 cm. Color frontispiece, 5 colour illustrations, and 34 full-page black and white illustrations. Curiously, the first American edition preceded the English edition resulting in an additional 12 drawings plus 13 head and tailpieces not included in the... More about The Tale of Little Pig Robinson
New York: Frederick Warne And Co., (1909). First American edition. Hardcover. 52 pages. 15.5 x 14 cm. Colour frontispiece, plain title vignette, 9 colour plates, colour pictorial endpapers. Originally a manuscript presented to Harold Warne's daughter as a Christmas present, but with one of the illustrations it contained cut-out for... More about Ginger & Pickles
London: Frederick Warne And Co., [1917]. First edition. Hardcover. 49 pages. 12.5 x 11 cm. First or second printing (with correct endpapers -- advertising The Tale of Mr. Tod and The Tale of Pigling Bland), colour frontispiece, plain title, 14 chromolithograph illustrations facing accompanying text. Potter had originally conceived of... More about Apply Dapply's Nursery Rhymes
Waltham St. Lawrence: Golden Cockerel Press, 1929-1931. Gill, Eric. Hardcover. Folio, 32 x 20 cm. Limited edition, copy 137 of 485 (15 copies on vellum) Printed by Moira and Robert Gibbings in Caslon Old Face on Batchelor hand-made paper with Cockerel watermark. Printed in red, black and blue. The text... More about The Canterbury Tales by Geoffrey Chaucer
London: Charles Tilt, 1834-1836. First edition. 22 x 31 cm, 37 hand-colored etched plates, including etched title in No. 1., in the nine original parts. ABBEY LIFE 275. COHN 181. Notes the first six numbers with a printed title were not issued with the parts. He also states, "India proofs... More about My Sketch Book
London: J.M. Dent & Co, 1893-1894. Beardsley, Aubrey. First edition. Hardcover. 24.5 x 19 cm. In the original 12 parts. Full page plates, illustrations, decorated letter initials, wrappers and head and tail pieces after Aubrey Beardsley. Beardsley's "Le Morte D'Arthur" in the rare parts issue, published when he was only... More about Le Morte D'Arthur; Illustrated By Aubrey Beardsley
Wurzburg: Christian Weiss, 1840. First edition. Hardcover. Folio, 37.5 x 28 cm. Lithographed title page and 47 exquisite hand-colored lithograph plates that literally shimmer of Austrian military costume and regimental flags that include a host of nationalities under the authority of the Austro-Hungarian Empire -- German, Hungarian, Austrian Infantry, Cavalry... More about Das Kaiserlich Oestreich'sche Militar aus dem Grossen Werke Saemmtliche Truppen von Europa
London: George G. Harrap & Company Limited, (1923). First edition. leather_bound. 48 pages. 31 x 23.5 cm. Limited edition, one of 2000, most were remaindered, and then destroyed in London in 1941. 48 calligraphic text sheets, and 48 illustrated color plates, all mounted to gray cardstock. Plates retipped to new... More about The Ship That Sailed To Mars, A Fantasy
London: Macmillan And Co, 1910. leather_bound. 256 pages. 24 x 18 cm. One hundred illustrations by Hugh Thomson and Sixteen Coloured plates from Drawings by Alfred Rawlings. Sixteen mounted color plates, including frontispiece, with descriptive tissue guards and 100 black and white text text illustrations (12 full page). In an... More about Our Village; With An Introduction By Anne Thackeray Ritchie
London: Howlett And Brimmer for T. M'Llean, (1821). leather_bound. 59 pages. Folio, 36 x 27 cm. Half title, hand-colored aquatint additional title and 24 hand-colored aquatint plates by Robert Havell after Smith (text watermarked "Stacy wise 1818"; plates watermarked "JWhatman 1817-1823"). Henry Miller binder's ticket at rear. Smith, an artist... More about The Costume Of The Original Inhabitants Of The British Islands, From The Earliest Periods to the...
London: E.P. Dutton, 1927. Third edition. Hardcover. 538 pages. 29.5 x 26 cm. Limited edition one of 1600 copies. 21 full-page woodcut plates and a plethora of in-text wood engravings. GORDON N. RAY 314. "Seeking to emulate the books of the Kelmscott Press, John Dent in 1892 offered Beardsley 200... More about The Birth Life And Acts Of King Arthur Of His Noble Knights Of The Round Table Their Marvellous...
London: Privately Printed (Temple Sheen Press), 1914. leather_bound. 109 pages. 22.5 x 17.5 cm. Limited edition, one of 300 hand-printed by Arthur K. Sabin on Batchelor hand-made paper. Temple Sheen Press produced high quality fine press books issued in wrappers. Bound by Morley Brothers of Oxford, wide text margins, inner... More about The Rubaiyat Of Omar Khayyam; A Variorum Edition Of Edward Fitzgerald's Rendering Into English...
London: Macmillan & Co Limited, 1903. Hardcover. 477 pages. 19.5 x 13 cm. In a "vellucent" binding by Cedric Chivers of Bath, stamp-signed on the back turn-in, of transparent vellum over paper. Front cover with a multi-color painted architecturally frame with three mother of pearl inlays enclosing an original painting... More about Evelina Or The History Of A Young Lady's Entrance Into The World; With an Introduction by Austin...
London: Leonard Smithers And Co., 1899. First edition. leather_bound. 213 pages. 21.5 x 15 cm. One of 1000 copies (excluding the limited edition of 400 signed large paper copies). The play opened in January 1895 at the Theatre Royal, Haymarket, to a standing ovation from the Prince of Wales and... More about An Ideal Husband By The Author Of Lady Wildermere's Fan
London: Elkin Mathews And John Lane, 1893. First edition. Hardcover. 132 pages. 20.5 x 14 cm. Bound by Asprey. MASON 357. Slight toning to blank head of text area, covers and spine framed in gilt. More about Lady Windermere's Fan A Play About A Good Woman
London: W. Lewis for James Goodwin, [1829]. leather_bound. Unpaginated. 24 x 17 cm. 50 hand-colored aquatints plates (watermarks to 1829). A comprehensive overview of Chinese contemporary costume and culture, including street scenes, tradesmen, military, entertainers, and the fashionable upper class. The volume's combination of superb draftsmanship and interest in a.... More about Picturesque Representations Of The Dress And Manners Of The Chinese; Illustrated In Fifty...
London: Thomas. M'Lean, 1818. First edition. leather_bound. Folio, 36.7 x 26.2 cm. Half-title, engraved portrait frontispiece, hand-colored aquatint additional title (Grand Vizier plate), and 29 hand colored aquatint plates with several watermarked "JWhatman Turkey Mill/1822." Unobtrusive blind stamp to a few leaves, small repair plate on verso of image with... More about The Military History of Turkey. Illustrated By A Series of Engravings from Drawings made on the...
London: Shakespeare Head Press, 1927. Nash, Paul. Hardcover. 109 pages in text. 33 x 25 cm. Limited edition, one of 100 this copy unnumbered, on Batchelor's Kelmscott hand-made paper which was bound in vellum or oasis morocco (this copy in the latter). Signed by Paul Nash, Harley Granville-Barker, and Albert... More about The Tragedie Of King Lear Newly Printed from the Folio of 1623
New York: Doubleday, Page & Co., 1909. First American edition. 325 pages. 25 x 19 cm. 40 tipped-in color plates with lettered tissue guards, 55 text illustrations in black-and-white, and pictorial endpapers in red, by Arthur Rackham. HAMILTON p.111.".....edition of Grimm, which not only featured violence and imminent terrors, but... More about Grimm's Fairy Tales by Grimm (Jakob Ludwig and Wilhelm Carl); Translated by Mrs.Edgar Lucas
Paris: Bulletin De La Convention Nationale, (1794). Original Wraps. 8 pages. 21 x 14 cm. Another announcement from the "sans culots." The last page notes individuals: "Dusaulx, president; Bourgain, Rudel, Blanc (de la Marne); Dumont (du Calvades), Lefebvre (de las Seine-Inferieure), secretaire. Ex-library stamps first page, slight paper crinkling, text clean. More about Bulletin De La Convention Nationale. Seance du 4 Germinal, l'an troiseme de la Republique...
Paris: Bulletin De La Convention Nationale, (1794). Original Wraps. 8 pages. 21 x 14 cm. Partly unopened. Lettres Des Representans Du Peuple En Mission Dans Les Departemens, A Nice, le 25 ventose, l'an troisieme de la Republique une et indivisible. Turreau, representant du peuple, envoye pres les armees d'Italie et... More about Seance du 5 germinal, l'an III de la Republique Francaise une et indivisible; 5 Egalite, Liberte
Philadelphia: Univ.of Pennsylvania Press, 1959. Second edition. Hardcover. 288 pages. Experiments in creating a perfect society by establishing a small scale experimental community. Index. More about Backwoods Utopias The Sectarian And Owenite Phases Of Communitarian Socialism In America: 1665-1829
London: Longmans, Green & Co., 1901-1902. Hardcover. Pagination consecutively: 161, 163, 293, (112,113), 238, (106,100), 284, 177. 29 x 21 cm. All are Limited editions of 315 copies. All mostly unopened, printed in red and black on "Primrose" paper made for Morris, pristine interiors, extra paper spine labels inside front... More about First Collected Edition Published by Longmans, Green & Co. with the Golden type designed by...
London: Chapman And Hall, 1837. First edition in Book Form. leather_bound. 609 pages. 22 x 14.5 cm. EXTRA ILLUSTRATED: Frontispiece, title vignette, and 41 plates by Robert Seymour and Hablot K. Browne; 2 (suppressed plates) by R. W. Buss; extra-illustrated with 30 inserted plates by Thomas Onwhyn with Sam Weller... More about The Posthumous Papers of The Pickwick Club; With Notes And Numerous Illustrations Edited By...
London: Bradbury & Evans, 1850. Browne, H.K. First edition. Hardcover. 624 pages. 22 x 15 cm. Early issue, engraved title, and thirty-eight plates by Hablot K. Browne -- with first issue points noted by Smith: comma on plate p.386 [Traddle], and third "I" on p. viii raised Dicken's biographic novel... More about The Personal History of David Copperfield