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: Essex House Press (Edward Arnold), 1904. leather_bound. 96 pages. Folio, 29.5 x 21.5 cm. Limited edition, copy 67 of 200 of 220 (20 printed on vellum). Frontispiece by C.R. Ashbee with text printed in red and black in Endeavour type. Wide text margins, bright copy, top front tie lacking, backstrip lettered in gilt. More about Prometheus Unbound A Lyrical Drama

New York: Forham Univ. Press, 1988. First edition. Hardcover. 340 pages. An important book for the study of Irish books and the print trade. More about A Dictionary Of The Print Trade In Ireland 1550-1775

London: The Commonweal, 1887. First edition. Wraps. 32 pages. 18 x 12 cm. As for the first time played at the Hall of the Socialist League on Saturday October 15, 1887. Morris gives socialism his theatrical touch with Mr. La-di,da, Mr. Justice Nupkins, Mr. Hungary, Sergeant Sticktoit, The Archbishop of... More about The Tables Turned; Or, Nupkins Awakened; A Socialist Interlude

London: Jacob Tonson, 1700-1701. First Collected edition. leather_bound. 646, 232 pages. 33 x 20 cm. ESTC R31983 bound with T124515, the two works are generally found bound together. Of the second work, as ESTC notes, "Absalom and Achitopher,``The Medal,`Religio laici` and `The hind and the panther` each have separate title... More about Fables Ancient and Modern; Translated into Verse, From Homer, Ovid, Boccace, & Chaucer: With...

London: Hodder & Stoughton, 1921. Rackham, Arthur. leather_bound. 75 pages. 25 1/2 x 20 cm. Three mounted color plates and seven black and white illustrations. Limited edition, copy 306 of 500 signed by Rackham and Phillpotts. Phillpotts, a West Country author renown for his Dartmoor settings. LATTIMORE and HASKELL 54... More about A Dish Of Apples By Eden Phillpotts

London: T. Fisher Unwin, 1899. First edition. Hardcover. [XVI] (1) 375 (1) pages. 20 x 13.5 cm. Illustrations mostly after Dodgson's photographs. The first work is the first publication of Dodgson's manuscript notebook of "Alice;" the second is an interesting miscellany of Carroliana. Buxton Forman's copy with his bookplate. Front... More about The Lewis Carroll Picture Book; A Selection From The Unpublished Writings And Drawings Of Lewis...

London: Sherwood, Jones, 1825-1826. Cruikshank, Robert & Thomas Rowlandson. First edition. leather_bound. 412, 399 pages. 24 x 15 cm. 71 hand-colored aquatints with tissue guards, of which 67 are by Robert Cruikshank, 2 by Rowlandson and one each by T. Wageman and G.M. Brightly; full page woodcut [Five Principal Orders... More about The English Spy: An Original Work, Characteristic, Satirical, And Humorous. Comprising Scenes And...

London: Printed for J. Nichols and Son; et al, 1813. Second Variorum Edition. leather_bound. 24.8 x 15.5 cm. Extra illustrated with the engraved title and complete series of plates from Harding's "Shakespeare Illustrated By an Assemblage Of Portraits and Views.........." from Harding's 1793 edition. [see; JAGGARD p. 512]. All copper... More about The Plays Of William Shakespeare. In Twenty-One Volumes.; With Corrections And Illustrations Of...

London: T. Cadell And W. Davies, 1820. Second Stothard edition. leather_bound. 389, 456 pages. 21.5 x 14 cm. Title vignettes and 20 engraved plates after Thomas Stothard engraved by Charles Heath. GORDON N. RAY 19. "Stothard took more pains with these two substantial volumes than he did with his routine... More about The Life And Adventures Of Robinson Crusoe; Embellished With Engravings From Designs By Thomas...

London: Chapman and Hall, 1865. Marcus Stone. First edition. Hardcover. 320 & 309 PAGES. 22.5 X 15 cm. 40 engraved plates, illustrated by Marcus Stone. The title to the book was selected four years before the issue, but Dickens' effort to keep "All The Year Round" afloat, and his illnesses... More about Our Mutual Friend

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 about Venus And Adonis by William Shakespeare

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 about Writings