London: W. Ellis, November 1780. Stipple engraving from an original drawing by Thomas Hearne. The figures engraved by W. Wollett. and the landscape by W. Ellis. Image size 30.5 x 36 on wove paper. The descriptions below the image illegible. More
London: W. Ellis, March 1780. Stipple engraving from an original drawing by Thomas Hearne. The first plate of the Vicar of Wakefield (Vol. I page 37), the figures engraved by W. Wollett. and the landscape by W. Ellis. Image size 30.5 x 36 on wove paper. More
London: John Pine, 1733-1737. John Pine. First edition. leather_bound. 265, 191 (f3-!4). 22.7 x 14 cm. First issue with the misprint "post est"" in the medallion of Caesar p.18. The entire text plus all the illustrations are engraved by Pine on copper plates. There are title vignettes, eight full page..... More
New York: Blue Ribbon Rooks, Inc., 1932. Lent, Harold. First edition. Hardcover. 96 pages. 22 x 16.5 cm. Illustrated with four pop-ups in a multitude of colors, and numerous black and white illustrations in the text. Carlo Collodi (Italian, 1826–1890) was responsible for the original Pinocchio writing the "Story of..... More
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
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
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
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: 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: 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
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
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