Rome: Np, 1784. First edition. leather_bound. Twenty leaves, images printed recto only. Folio, 46 x 35 cm. First edition of a suite of dramatic aquatints inspired by Verri's popular 1780 novel about the Greek poet Sappho's legendary tragic infatuation with Phaon. Tresham (1751-1814) was an Irish painter and art dealer... More
Rochester: Leo Hart, 1931. First edition. Hardcover. 81 pages. 27.5 x 21. Limited edition copy 60 of 1250 signed by Kent with twenty-one black and white and sepia wood engravings with additional extra suite of 21 plates housed in plain period custom box. The latter were originally an accompaniment to... More
Boston: Houghton Mifflin & Co., 1909. Hardcover. 21.5 x 16 cm. Autograph Edition, copy 96 of 750, signed by Mary A. Ward in Volume I. The author, born to a prominent Australian family removed to England when she was five years of age, her father was Tom Arnold (English Professor)... More
Cambridge: Houghton, Mifflin & Co, 1888-1894. Hardcover. 22.5 x 15.5 cm. Large Paper Edition, copy 125 of 400, containing the Writings (7 volumes), and Samuel T. Pickard's, Life and Letters (2 volumes) with the bookplates of C.L. Huntley. Whittier was perhaps best known for his Anti-Slavery position early in the... More
Concord, New Hampshire: B. Merrill & Son, Nd. Wraps. 8 pages. 7 x 5.4 cm. Children's poems and engravings with back cover noting Casket for Girls and Boys, or a small box for personal itrems, and probably not "a fancy coffin." More
Worcester: J. Grout, Jr., Nd. Wraps. 24 pages. 14 x 9 cm. Illustrated with ten wood engravings, most are full page. Interior contents clean, nick to front cover margin. More
New York: Higgins & Kellogg, Nd. Wraps. 24 pages. 15 x 10 cm. Fourth Series, No. 12. Illustrated with wood engravings. First chapter on the Mohawk Chief Kiodago And His Christian Wife. Text generally clean. More
Zurich: Drucke von Josef Stocker, 1984. Erni, Hans. leather_bound. 56 pages. Folio, 51 x 41 cm. Limited edition, copy 103 of 150 with four original prints each signed by Erni housed in a rear pocket. Text in French and German with numerous black and white lithograph drawings by Hans Erni... More
New York: Limited Editions Club, 1985. Neel, Alice. Hardcover. 32 pages. 39 x 28 cm. Limited edition, one of 1500 copies, this copy not numbered, signed by Raphael Soyer in pencil. Designed by Ben Shiff, printed at the Anthoesen Press with mould-made paper by The Cartiere Enrico Magnani. With the... More
London: John Murray, 1817. First edition, third issue. Hardcover. 80 pages. 21.5 x 13.5 cm. Complete with half title. RANDOLPH p. 66. With printer's imprint on verso of half title, and two line quotation on title. Scattered, light foxing, light rubbing to extremities. More
London: T. Davison for John Murray, 1813. First edition. leather_bound. 72 pages. 21.5 x 13.5 cm. First issue with tipped-in errata and twenty lines of page 47. TINKER 538. Bound by Sangorski & Sutcliffe, inner dentelles, double gilt cover border panels, spine gilt in six compartments including red leather spine label, green endpapers. More
Mansfield, 4th January: 1812. Hardcover. Autograph Note to the Right Honorable Lord Byron, from Joseph Thrall to "pay to the order of Two Hundred + Seventy Pounds for value received." Document is 8.5 x 10.5 cm, docketed and endorsed on verso, neatly matted along side an engraved portrait of Byron... More
London: John Murray, 1814. First edition. Hardcover. 14 pages. 21 x 13.5 cm. With half title and one page advertisement. With Francis Lewis Randolph's bookplate and shelf label. "Very rare, in any condition -- the half-title is usually lacking." RANDOLPH p.40.. "Of all the pamphlet-poems published by John Murray in... More
London: Privately Printed, [1824]. First edition. leather_bound. 15 pages. 21.7 x 14 cm. Title with top and bottom margins replaced. "This most interesting and informative pamphlet was written by John Murray (the Second). The text was founded upon a letter addressed by Murray to `The Times,` and was privately printed... More
Paris: Edouard Pelletan, 1931. Maillol, Aristide. First edition. Stiff Wraps. 35 pages. 30.5 x 24.5 cm. Limited edition, 205 roman numbered copies on Japan Pelletan, lithographs printed by E. Desjobert (of a total edition of 255), illustrated with three woodcuts and eleven black and white lithographs by Aristide Maillol. The... More
London: Sherwood Jones, 1823. First edition. Hardcover. 100 pages. 24 x 15.5 cm. Twenty designs by Robert Cruikshank, ten within the text, and ten full-page illustrations at the end of the text. Westmacott's books are satirical and personal, rather coarse, but lively. This, his first is most satirical. Lacks adverts, text clean. More
Iowa City: Prairie Press, 1964. Gill, Eric. First edition. Hardcover. Unpaginated, approx. 36 pages. 25 x 16.5 cm. Designed and printed by Carroll Coleman, signed by him, the two decorative letters on the title page, Floriated Capitals are types designed by Gill. Marcus McCorison's (American Antiquarian Society) copy with his... More
Oxford: Nonesuch Press, 1926. First edition thus. leather_bound. 104 pages. 15 x 9,5 cm. Limited editions, copy 993 of 1250 printed by John Johnsonat the Oxford University Press on French hand-made paper. Armorial bookplate of Sir John Wormald. Evelyn was 84 years of age when he began this memoir. Bright, fresh copy. More
Newtown, Montgomeryshire: Gregynog Press, 1932. Blair Hughes-Stanton. leather_bound. Unpaginated. 35 x 21 cm. Limited edition, copy 26 of 250 with wood engravings and title page designed and engraved by Blair Hughes-Stanton, hand set in Bembo and Perpetua type. More than 40 wood engravings, several are full paged. This edition has... More
London: Golden Cockerel Press, 1943. First edition. Hardcover. 52 pages. 25 x 15.5 cm. Engravings reproduced by host of prominent Golden Cockerel artists including John Buckland -Wright's golden cockerel design engraved for this work. Bookplate of Richard D. Friedlander. Clean, bright copy, rubbing to backstrip extremities. More
NP: ND. 15.5 x 39.5 inches. Two framed in glass and matted drawings by Rockwell Kent, both signed by him in pencil at lower right present ten characters from the original tale by Geoffrey Chaucer with some contention by critics that the Tale was incomplete at the time of Chaucer's... More
London: Longman, Brown, Green, Longmans and Roberts, 1857. Stiff Wraps. First plate of the Series: with image of Sir John Falstaff Knight seated, "Drawn by William Shakespeare, Etched by George Cruikshank," and inscribed in pencil to "Erasmus Wilson Esq. F.R.S.with the regards of George Cruikshank," with his florid signature below..... More
New York: Lustrum Press, 1984. Warhol, Andy. First edition. Stiff Wraps. 95 pages. 30.3 x 24 cm. 43 black and white photographs, many erotic, accompanied by the author's poetry. Malanga worked with Andy Warhol at the Factory. This Bronx born poet was introduced to Warhol by his English professor at... More
Florence: Leo S. Olschi, 1926. First edition. Stiff Wraps. 80 pages in text. 24.5 x 17.5 cm. With 344 illustrations on 220 plates with one in color, three in bistre, plus 15 figures in the text, two in color. Printed in red and black, interior contents: text and plates fresh... More
London: Longman, Brown, Green and Longman, ca. 1850. leather_bound. 339 pages. 17 x 11 cm. Engraved frontispiece and title page. CBEL called this long poem "his very best work in verse." [see: Vol. 11, p.162]. Elegant binding by Leighton Brewer, inner dentelles, marbled endpapers, small bookplate. More