London: Thomas McLean, 1824. Alken, Henry. First edition. Hardcover. Unpaginated. 26 x 18 cm. No text, 20 engraved color plates printed recto only, depciting heads of people and animals, hunting scenes, dog and cock fights. One of the scarcer scrapbooks by Alken. Minor rubbing to boards, some marginal toning and light plate offsetting. More
London: Thomas McLean, [1824]. Alken, Henry. First edition. Hardcover. No text. 27 x 19 cm. 50 hand-colored plates, many with multiple images, of the fifty plates, twenty are full paged sporting scenes, well drawn and nicely coloured, and printed on heavy paper. All plates printed recto only. Bright, clean copy... More
London: Rudolph Ackermann, 1843. Alken, Henry. Second edition. Hardcover. 358 pages. 21 x 14.2 cm. First edition with colored plates -- 15 hand-colored aquatint plates, including the engraved title vignette. Each plate marked, drawn and etched by H. Alken (except the title which does not bear his name).TOOLEY 471. "First... More
NY: E.P. Dutton, 1928. Second edition. Hardcover. 450 pp. More
New York: Aperture, 1984. Arbus, Diane. First edition. Hardcover. 175 pages. 29 x 24 cm. 151 black and white photographs. A collective portrait of sixties' style and culture. Bibliography, More
Philadelphia: C. Sherman & Son, 1865. Hardcover. 85 pages. 8vo, first published 1852. An early guidebook to Girard College. Bookplate. More
Berkeley: Univ. of California Press, 1966. First edition. Paperback. More
NY: Doubleday Page, 1906. First edition. leather_bound. 467 pages. 29 x 19 cm. More than fifty black and white illustrations with lettered tissue guards. Limited edition, copy 34 of 100 printed on Van Gelder hand-made paper by the De Vinne Press. Clean, bright copy, covers slightly splayed. More
NY: Overlook Press, 1988. First edition. Hardcover. 256 pages. 4to, 125 black and white photographs and drawings, and fifty-eight color photographs. Index. An architectural and social tour. Bookplate. More
Paris: Edouard Rouveyre, 1880. Malval. First edition. leather_bound. 178 pages. 8vo, 22 x 13 cm. Etchings in sepia and black and white by Malval. Limited edition, copy 70 of 100 on Whatman paper. Lovely binding by R.W. Smith, raised bands, gilt spine panel florets and lettering. More
NY: Simon and Schuster in collaboration with Editions Verve of Paris, 1952. First American edition. Hardcover. Unpaginated. Folio, 37 x 27.5. 126 full-page photographs with cover designed and executed by Henri Matisse. This the American edition from the French edition by Verve, "Images a La Sauvette." Engraving and printing by... More
London: Seeley, 1893. Hardcover. 314 pp. Index. Explores the history of the beautiful countess who inspired Waller to write his greatest poems. More
Washington,DC: Cosmos Club, 1966. First edition. Hardcover. 176 pp. More
London: George Newbold, (1851). Later printing. Hardcover. 242 pages. 22.5 x 14.5 cm. Ten engraved plates, several folding, and woodcut title page. Originally issued in parts by David Bogue. COHN 548. Plates and text clean, backstrip head nicked with small loss, wear at front joint, bookplates. More
London: Thomas Tegg And Son, 1835. Fourth edition. Hardcover. 291 pages. 15 x 10 cm. COHN 441. "The fourth edition, but the first with the illustrations, of which there are twenty (woodcut vignettes), including one upon the title page." Bound by Zaehnsdorf, raised bands, spine panels decorated in gilt, marbled endpapers, contents bright and clean. More
London: Chatto and Windus, 1875. Cruikshank, George. Hardcover. 388 & 428 pp. 8vo, copiously illustrated, hundreds of illustrations by Cruikshank with many fold-out plates. Vol.I: Years 1835-43. Vol.II:Years 1844-53. Writers including Thackeray, Albert Smith, Gilbert A'Beckett, The Brothers Mayhew, etc., contributed. The years 1835-1853 embrace the best period of Cruikshank's... More
NY: McGraw-Hill, 1974. First edition. Hardcover. 384 pages. 28 x 21 cm. More than 500 illustrations. Index. More
Philadelphia: J.B. Lippincott, 1926. First edition. Hardcover. 308 pp. 217 illustrations include photographs, maps and drawings.Topographical List of Old Inns. Index. "The inns described and illustrated in this book will be found to include most of the chief examples of England, representing each development of the national building tradition, from... More
Washington, DC: New York Ave. Presbyterian Church, 1961. First edition. Hardcover. 369 pp. More
London: Sherwood, Neely , And Jones, 1823. Cruikshank, George and I.R. Cruikshank. Second Issue. Hardcover. 376 pages. 23.5 x 15 cm. Thirty-six colored aquatint plates by George and Isaac Robert Cruikshank, host of wood-cuts, three sheets of engraved music. TOOLEY 196. "An enormously popular work translated into French, and a.... More
London: Jones & Co, 1821-1822. First edition. leather_bound. 656 & 668 pages. 21.5 x 14 cm. 8vo, nineteen hand-colored plates Vol.I, and thirteen colored plates, Vol.II., with one (Tom and Bob catching a Charley Napping) of the two extra plates. These are colored aquatints and etchings reinforced by aquatinting. Illustrated... More
NY: Frederick A. Stokes, 1894. First edition. Boards. Approx. 12 pages. 30 1/2 x 25 1/2 cm. Six full-page color lithographs printed recto only by a prominent socialite of the time, her depictions of the smart set, the antithesis of Charles Dana Gibson's incisive, subtle parodies, but in the same... More
Berkeley: Univ. of California Press, 1948. First edition. Paperback. More
Berkeley: Univ. of California Press, 1968. First edition. Hardcover. Illustrations. Glossary. Genealogyof the Li Family of Ho-fei. Bibliography. Index. An unofficial institution which personalized the bureaucratic central administration and eventually helpedChina to modernize, especially in the late 19th century. Orig. yellow cloth. Fine in fine dust jacket. More
New Haven: Yale Univ. Press, 1979. Second edition. Hardcover. 218 pages. More than 400 illustrations. Map of houses described in text. General Index. Subject Index. The social context of the Victorian house is as interesting if not more so than the often eccentric styles of the buildings themselves. ARNTZEN/RAINWATER J210... More