New York: The American News Company, Nd. Hardcover. 244 pages. 26 x 19 cm. This edition not listed in OCLC. Title page printed in red and black. Index of Contents. Profusely illustrated with full page and black and white illustrations. Griset, French born, the family moved to London early on..... More
London: David Nutt, 1899. Wraps. (xx) 283, (v) 322 pages. 19 x 13 cm. Limited edition one of 550. Index and Glossary. Decorated initial letters and some wood-cut illustrations. Printed on acidy paper, slightly toned with wide text margins, contents very clean, uncut edges. Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â ... More
Vienna: Munk, 1911. First edition. Stiff Wraps. 24 unnumbered pages. 31 x 26 cm. Twelve Jugendstil full page color designs by the brother-in-laws, Heinrich Lefler and Josef Urban, each plate surrounded by wide decorative borders of flowers, animals, crests and other motifs relating to the image -- enhanced by platinum..... More
New York: Leavitt & Allen, 1865-1867? First edition. Wraps. 16 pages. 9 x 6 cm. Images are hand colored woodcuts representing the following trades: The wheelright -- Ship carpenter -- The tailor -- The shoemaker -- The hatter -- The printer -- cigar making -- The calico printer -- The..... More
Princeton: Pyne, 1971. First edition. Hardcover. 16 pages in text. 37 x 29 cm. Fifty-eight full-page, exquisite color drawings by this imaginative toymaker. Every attempt was made to reproduce the "sketchbook" in exact facsimile. Full play was given by Brown to the brilliant use of color and realistic detail in..... More
West Hatfield: Pennyroyal Press, 1985. Moser, Barry. Hardcover. 268 pages. 33.5 x 30.5 cm. Limited edition, copy 200 of 350 illustrated and signed by Barry Moser. With an appreciation by Justin G. Shiller, printed by Harold McGrath in Van Dijck type on archival paper with calligraphy by Yvette Rutledge. Sixty..... More
London: Werner Shaw, 1983. Robinson, W. Heath. First edition. Hardcover. 156 pages. More
London: C. W. Beaumont, 1924. First edition. Hardcover. 32 pages. 23 x 15 cm. Frontispiece plus two additional full page color lithographs, with additional color lithograph decorations in the text. Bright, very fresh copy. More
London: W. Kent & Co & Bradbury and Evans, 1857. Bennett, Charles H. First edition. Hardcover. 24 numbered pages each accompanied by a full page color lithograph -- text printed verso and plates verso with blanks on the opposite sides. 26 x 21 cm. Bennett, a noted artist and contributor..... More
Boston: Bililngs Clapp & Co., ca 1880. Wraps. 8 leaves. 16 x 12 cm. Large folded advert for Nicol's Sarsaparilla with Iodode Of Lime at rear. A contemporary, perhaps scurrilous attempt to sell medicine to families via a purported children's book. Interior with blank checkerboard spaces opposite a drawing within..... More
New York: Houghton Mifflin, 1942. First edition. Hardcover. 40 pages. 23 x 25 cm. Virginia Lee Burton won the Caldecott Medal for this beloved children's classic, which along with Mike Mulligan and His Steam Shovel is her best-known work. She said that the story was based on her own house's..... More
West Hatfield: Pennyroyal Press, 1982. Hardcover. 145 pages. Folio, 42.5 x 27.5 cm. Limited edition, copy 67 of 350 printed on Pulegium paper specially made for Pennyroyal by Strathmore Paper Company, and signed by Moser, accompanied with an extra suite of signed plates in a separate portfolio each plate signed..... More
London: Macmillan, 1886. First (and apparently only) edition. Hardcover. {XIV] 96 pages. 19 x 13 cm. Edition of 5000 copies. Manuscript facsimile, including 37 line drawings (14 full-page) after Dodgson who illustrated this edition himself, 2 pages of publisher's ads. Triple gilt front cover fillets, back cover design decorated in..... More
New York: The Macaulay Company, 1905. Betts, Ethel Franklin. First edition. Hardcover. 206 pages. 24 x 18 cm. With illustrations and decorations by Ethel Franklin Betts -- full page color frontispiece and an additional four full page color illustrations, plus color illustrated endpapers. More
Philadelphia & Toronto: John C. Winston Company, 1952. First edition. Hardcover. 209 pages. 21.5 x 15 cm. An early work directed by Clarke and the publisher for a juvenile audience. The novel's theme -- As a prize for winning a TV quiz show the protagonist is sent to an orbiting..... More
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
New York: Century Company, 1895. First edition. Hardcover. 144 pages (XII). 26 x 21.5 cm. The fourth book in the series. Test bright, faultless with a plethora of images by Palmer Cox also fresh. Free front endpaper with scant evidence of bookplate removal, Harold Bond owns this book presented by..... More
London & New York & Chicago: John Lane The Bodley Head & Stone & Kimball, Late 19th early 20th century. Hardcover. 26.3 x 22 cm. All are color plates engraved on wood by Edmund Evans, and printed verso or recto with blank backing, all original covers bound-in. Titles include many..... More
London & New York: John Lane, 1895. Crane, Walter. Stiff Wraps. 6 pages of text. 27 x 23 cm. Five full-page color wood engraved plates printed by Edmund Evans. Walter Crane's Picture Books, Large Series. SPENCER, p.39, notes, "Walter Crane's reputation as a children's book illustrator is founded on colour..... More
Boston: Houghton, Mifflin, 1893. Hardcover. 210 pages 22.5 x 16 cm. Sixty designs including nineteen color lithograph plates by Walter Crane. Bound by Leonard Mounteney at The Monastery Hill Bindery. Spencer [WALTER CRANE pp. 138], notes, "He also continued to work on more specific colour commissions in several publications for..... More
London: George Routledge And Sons, 1865. Hardcover. All are 18 x 14 cm. 30, 32 and 31 pages respectively. All in original green wrappers with advert rear back cover and Cruikshank's fairy tale story of his nephew on verso of front cover. Respectively there are "Drawn and Etched" plates for..... More
NP: George Parker Winship, 1910. Reprint. Wraps. Four unnumbered pages. 16 x 12.5 pages. OCLC: "Attributed to John Danforth by Bristol./ Reprinted December 13, 1910 To convey this Season's happier Greetings for a few Friends of George Parker Winship"--Page 2 of cover./ Facsimile reprint of the edition published." A Christmas..... More
New York & London: Hodder & Stoughton, (1913). Hardcover. Unpaginated, approx. 200 pages. 27.5 x 22.5 cm. Printed from the Second Edition. Twenty-one plates mounted on buff-vellum like sheets framed with border designs, all with tissue guards. HUGHEY 21d. "Bands around plates are dull gilt design stamped over green. Printing..... More
London: Hodder & Stoughton, 1913. First trade edition. leather_bound. 113 pages. 25.5 x 20 cm. Ten mounted color plates with descriptive letterpress tissue guards in olive ink. HUGHEY 31a. "The ten water colors in the book were exhibited at the Leicester Galleries from November 15th until Christmas 1913." Elegantly bound..... More
Paris: H. Piazza, 1919. First Dulac edition. Stiff Wraps. 147 pages. 31 x 24 cm. Twenty-seven color plates, mounted and framed with yellow border design of the title page, tissue guards caption printed in black ink, and with text also enclosed in aforementioned design frame. Limited edition, copy 122 OF..... More