London: Essex House Press (Edward Arnold), 1902. leather_bound. 12 pages. 19 x 12 .5 cm. Limited edition, copy 2 of 150 printed on vellum with front cover Arts & Crafts rose in blind, and entitled "Soul Is Form." Frontispiece by William Strang. Hand colored woodcut first page initial and tail-piece..... More
Upper Mall, Hammersmith: Kelmscott Press, 1895. leather_bound. Folio, vi, 119 pages. 29.4 x 21.5 cm. Printed in Troy type (text) and Chaucer type (side notes etc.), woodcut title page, woodcut foliate initials and borders by Hooper after Morris, section headings and side notes in red. Beowulf was a particular labor..... More
Bristol: Douglas Cleverdon, 1929. Jones, David. Hardcover. 37 pages. Folio, 33 x 26 cm. Ten copper plate engravings by David. Jones. Limited edition, copy 366 of 460. Signed presentation copy to R. Critchell Rimington [noted yachtsmen and naval writer] with kind regards from Douglas Cleverdon. Jones, a friend and contemporary..... More
Praha: Statni Nakladatelstvi Krande Literatury Hudby A Umeni, 1956. First edition. Hardcover. 47 pages in text with bibliography. 24 x 17.5 cm. Frontispiece image of Sudek noting the lack of his right arm lost during his service in World War I. 232 tinted photographs by Sudek, each with date and..... More
New York: Viking Press, 1939. First edition. Hardcover. 619 pages. 21 x14 cm. With dust wrapper noting "First Edition," and noting the $2.75 price at publication. Dust wrapper designed by Elmer Hader. Steinbeck's Pulitzer Prize-winning classic. Perhaps the most influential, and best remembered book to come out of the Great..... More
Paris: Henri Ernst, ca1920's. First edition. Hardcover. Folios, 38.5 x 28.5 cm. All contents in French, and retrospectively -- 4 page text Espagnoles by J. Villaba (30 plates with locals); Finnois & Siberiens, 4 pages text with map (28 plates with locals); Russes Tartares Armeniennes (40 plates with locals and..... More
London: Virtue & Co., 1869. First edition. Hardcover. 320, 328. pages. 21.4 x 14 cm. Twenty black and white illustrations by J.E. Millais. Trollope traveled throughout Ireland when he served as a Civil Servant as a postal inspector His time there were happy and he became a champion of Ireland..... More
New York: E. Weyhe, 1933. First edition. Hardcover. XIX Preface. Folios, 39 x 32 cm. 614 full page illustrations printed on heavy glossy stock with descriptive facing text for each. Vol. I: Romanesque And Gothic; Vol.II. Fifteenth Century Renaissance; Vol. III. 16th to 18th Century. Title pages printed in red..... More
New York: Printed by the Author, 1945. Bourdelle, Pierre. First edition. Hardcover. Three text leaves are commentary by Pierre Claudel. Folio, 44 x 34 cm. Limited edition, copy 16 of 250 signed by Bourdelle. Fifty-two fine tinted lithographs printed in a variety of colors printed by Albert Carman on wove..... More
New York: De Capo Press, 1967. Strand, Paul. Second edition. Hardcover. 8 pages text. 40.5 x 31.5 cm. The twenty loose photogravure plates measure 25.4 x 20.3 cm: all contain tissue guards. Limited edition copy 532 of 1000 signed by Strand who in the limitation statement notes that he believes..... More
Paris: H. Piazza, 1919. Hardcover. 125 pages. 29.8 x 22.4 cm. Limited edition, copy 1303 of 1500. Bound by Vermorel. Paris. The English and American editions of East of the Sun and West of the Moon were issued five years earlier. Illustrated with 24 mounted color plates by Nielsen with..... More
London: S.W. Fores, June 23, 1827. Pictorial Boards. Hand colored engraving 10 x 14 inches in mat 15 x 17 inches. Wellington flourishing a document inscribed "Corn Bill," leads Whig blocks against the Ministry, represented by Canning and Goderich who stand on the left. The Duke kicks at his opponents..... More
London: S.W. Fores, March 25, 1793. Pictorial Boards. Hand colored engraving 10 x 14 inches in mat 15.5 x 20 inches. One of many prints as Fox as a Jacobin. Here the Devil offers Fox a choice of dagger, pistol, halter, poison. His hair rises in horror as he listens..... More
Minneapolis: Northcraft Studios, "At The Sign of the Pine" 1920's. First edition. Hardcover. Portfolio is 15 x 12 1/2 inches. A complete set of five etchings: Canal Bridge, The Old Well at Toul, A Street Scene, The Fireside, The Fagot Gatherer, plus at inside back cover a bifold leaf, a...... More
Wraps. A trove of ALS mostly to William Rotch Jr. relating to foreclosures of mortgages on land transactions of Quakers in Western New York. Many seek the council and consideration of Mr. Rotch, one of the wealthiest and notable Quakers who resided in New Bedford, MA. The letters are notable..... More
London: Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, And Brown, 1919. First edition. Hardcover. [XX] 389, 318. pages. 9.2 X 5.5 cm. Errata in second volume rear. The preface indicates the writer is male, also, in the preface notes seeking advise from two friends, then throwing their suggestions in the round bin with..... More
London: Samuel Clark, 1760. First edition. Hardcover. 275 (2) pages. Folio, 12 1/2" x 8". Early ink owner inscription head of title of Benjamin Grubb. Britain even today remains the most prominent grouping of Quakers in Europe. Covers the yearly meetings from Epistle I, 1675 through Epistle LXXXII, 1759. Many..... More
London: S.W. Fores, September 10, 1815. First edition. Pictorial Boards. Hand colored engraving 13 3/4 x 9 3/4 inches in mat 19 x 15 inches. An ironic allusion to Napoleon's invasion of England For Elba as Hell Bay. As Napoleon views the coast Bertrand says, "By gar! mon Emperor. dey..... More
London: John Bill, 1628. First English edition. Hardcover. 338 [14] pages. [*4-***4, A4-Vv4, Xx3]. 9.6 x 7.5 cm. First few leaves with early ink margin notes. Considered to be "a seminal work of Anglo-Saxon scholarship'" (ODNB) and the best edition for the quality and number of its engravings. Born Richard..... More
London: Hannah Humphrey, April 14th, 1803. Hardcover. 14 x 10.5 inches print size, in glass frame 22 x 17.5 inches (3 inch mat) ready for hanging. Etching and stipple engraving with hand-colouring. Mrs. Billington, who was as famous for her size as she was for her musical ability is shown..... More
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Edinburgh, London & Glasgow: Houlston & Wright & Greenwood, 1862. Sinclair, Catherine. First edition. Wraps. 22.4 x 13,8 mm. Bifolium, printed three sides, folds reinforced with archival clear tape, and toned. Sinclair, a Scottish novelist known for her children's literature departed from the moralising approach common to the period. She..... More
London: Published by the author, 1827. First edition. 6 pages in text. Folio, 17" x 13". Lithographed pictorial title, and 19 plates, all on India paper and mounted, this copy with an additional lithographed ("Specimen Plate") bound in at rear, and featuring hand-colored design for a villa with plan. Wightwick..... More
London: Townsend, ca 1830. First edition. Hardcover. Unpaginated. 15. x 12.5 cm. Lacks title. 184 hand colored plates numbered 493-676 with numerous examples of fashion styles per plate. There is also one dress pattern plate; plates interleaved with descriptive text. The style had a fitted bodice just below the bust..... More
London: William Hone, 1819. First edition. Hardcover. [xiii] 200 Pages. 6 1/8" x 4". Fold out hand colored frontispiece with a few nicks measures 18" x 6". The Preface notes this work as the translation of text by a French author who was inspired to write it from the Tableau..... More
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