Paris: Chez A. Barraud, 1873 (The ornamental title-page is hand-colored, highlighted in gold, and dated 1872). Limited to 99 copies, this no. 8 (text volume numbered 54). Folio. Three volumes in two. Unpaged. Illustrated with 144 magnificent hand-colored plates, many highlighted with gold and silver. Several of these plates are..... More
Isla Vista, CA: Turkey Press, 1986. First English Edition. No. 10 of 40 copies signed by the translator and artist. Quarto. Translated by David M. Guss. Seven sewn leaves with attachment of 24 pages in accordion style. Printed in red and black on Barcham Green's handmade India Office paper. Woodcuts..... More
Paris: Le Boucher, 1773-74. First edition. [vi], iv, 280p; xvi,104p. Illustrated with engraved frontispiece and 25 head- and tail-pieces by Massard after Eisen. Includes Hero et Leandre with separate title-page and engraved frontispiece by Duclos after Eisen. Bound by Hayday in full pebbled morocco with marbled endpapers, a.e.g., gilt spine..... More
London: Adam and Charles Black, 1904. Edition de Luxe limited to 250 copies, this the "Printer's Copy" Quarto. xv(i), 231p. Illustrated with 74 color plates after paintings by A. S. Forrest. In the publisher's binding of ivory cloth over beveled boards, the spine and upper cover with gilt titles and..... More
Edinburgh: George Ramsey for Archibald Constable, Manner and Miller, and Longman, Hurst, Rees, and Orme, 1808. Quarto. xiii, 504p. Illustrated with engraved frontispiece portrait and 22 engraved plates, including two folding maps. Bound in quarter tan calf over green cloth, the spine with gilt title on a green leather label..... More
London: Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown, J. Greig and P. Youngman, Witham, and Maldon, 1818. Two volumes. Small 8vo. viii, 224p; (viii), 198p. Illustrated with 100 engravings, including a map of the county. Each volume includes an engraved frontispiece and title page. Uniformly bound in full deep brown straight..... More
Paris: Jean-Francois Bastien, 1779. First edition. [xvi], 84p. Illustrated with engraved title frontispiece, vignette, 4 plates, and 4 tailpieces by Leclerc. Newly rebound in quarter dark green morocco with marbled sides, original spine label retained. Fine engravings, the rare first edition. More
London: J. Richardson, G. Offor. T, Tegg, et al. 1823. Second edition. 40 volumes. Small 8vo. Bound in full dark maroon straight grained morocco, a.e.g., the spines with gilt titles and fancy gilt panel ornaments, the covers with densely rolled gilt frames with a simple inner frame in blind. Bookplate..... More
Paris: De L'Imprimerie Royale, 1658. Folio. [xviii], 75p, [xii], 192p [i.e. 194, additional pages numbered 29a and 30a], [viii], 132p [i.e. 134, additional pages numbered 91a and 92a], [x], 103p, [viii], 54p, [viii], 46p. Engraved title page with pictorial vignettes and designs, head-piece and historiated initial. Illustrated with 587 large..... More
New York: Atheneum, 1964. First edition. [vi], 248p. Gilt-titled blue cloth spine with green boards. Author's first book. Author of A Lesson Before Dying and The Autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman. More
Boston and New York: Houghton Mifflin, The Riverside Press, 1900. Large-Paper Edition. Limited to 500 copies, this no. 45. 22 volumes. Illustrated. Bound in quarter brown crushed morocco with cloth sides and marbled endpapers, t.e.g., the spines with gilt titles and double fillet panel frames with small floral cornerpieces. More
London: Trianon Press for the William Blake Trust, 1977. Limited to 26 copies reserved for the Turstees of the William Blake Trust and the PUblishers (this No. L) of a total edition of 562 copies. Quarto. 155p. Illustrated frontispiece and 52 numbered plates for William Blake and 9 for Catherine..... More
London: Jonathan Cape, (1935). First Trade Edition, First Impression (Third English Edition) with illustrations on pages 304-305 listed incorrectly. 672p. Illustrated. 4to. Bound by Zaehnsdorf in quarter red calf with marbled sides and endpapers, t.e.g., the spine with black title labels gilt, the panels with gilt ornamentation. With the bookplate..... More
New York: Limited Editions Club, 1970. No. 549 of 2000 copies signed byRafael Ferrer, Gregory Babassa and Alistair Reid. Quarto. xii (ii), 348p. Translated by Gregory Rabassa. Introduction by Alastair Reid. Illustrated by Rafael Ferrer with text drawings and oil paintings reproduced in lithography. And with AN ORIGINAL lithograph laid..... More
London: The Casanova Society, 1923. "First English Edition" . Limited to 750 set on antique paper - this out of series. 16 volumes bound in 8. Illustrated with 16 color frontispieces. Bound in half maroon morocco with marbled sides and endpapers, t.e.g., the spines in 6 panels with gilt titles..... More
London: Reeves & Turner, 1902. Four volumes. Edited by William Carew Hazlitt. Titles pages in red and black. Illustrated, including portrait frontispiece and fold-out facsimile. Bound in full brown morocco with marbled endpapers, t.e.g., the spine with gilt titles and geometrically ruled panels, rules repeated on the covers. Paul Elder's..... More
Boston and New York: Houghton Mifflin, 1921. Two volumes. xviii, 260p; ix, 238p. Illustrated. Small 4to. Green cloth with architectural ornaments in gilt on the upper covers, t.e.g. Burnham (1846-1912) was a major Chicago architect and planner - and the chief architect for the World's Columbian Exposition, as well as..... More
London: Thomas & George Underwood, 1827. Second edition. vii, 405p, 2p, ads. Rebound by Bayntun in quarter brown crushed morocco with marbled sides and gilt spine title. Discusses digestion, cookery, etc. Rather scarce. More
Paris: Libraire de Firmin-Didot Et Cie, 1888. "Petite" first edition. Six volumes. Square 8vo. Illustrated with 500 plates, 300 in vivid chromolithography printed by Didot, and 200 in camaieu (monochrome) - complete. Bindings marked Brentano's Paris. Bound in half royal blue crushed morocco with gold-veined marbled sides and marbled endpapers..... More
London: John & Edward Bumpus, Ltd., 1911. No. 79 of 100 copies on handmade paper and signed by Salomons, printed at the Chiswick Press: Charles Whittingham. 83p, (xlii). Illustrated after Gravelot with frontispiece, title-page, and 21 full-page plates in photogravure from negatives by the author. Bound by Bumpus in full..... More
Edinburgh: Adam an Charles Black, North Bridge, 1853. 8vo. 375p. Illustrated with wood engravings by Birket Foster and John Gilbert and with a fore-edge painting of Loch-Katrine in the Western Highlands of Perthshire where the poem is set. Bound by J. Ross, Edinburgh in full black pebbled morocco, a.e.g., the..... More
London: G. and W.B. Whittaker, 1823. Second edition. xvi, 226p, blank. Engraved frontispiece "Meditations Of An Epicure" by William Hughes. Bound in original buff boards, rebacked with new paper spine label. Oxford 151; Cagle 1012 for 1st; Bitting 452 for 1st; Simon BG 1422. Rare. Contents: "On the Advantages of..... More
London: MacMillan, 1894. 8vo. xvi, 376p. Illustrated by Herbert Railton and Hugh Thomson. Bound by Bayntun in full scarlet crushed morocco with marbled endpapers, a.e.g., the spine in six panels with gilt titles and ornaments of horse heads and hunting horns, the covers with a series of fillet frames with..... More
London: Freemantle & Company, 1902. "The Winchester Edition" Two volumes. lxviii, 169p; ix, 232p. Illustrated with 10 full-page etchings by William Strang and 19 by D. Y. Cameron, along with 11 smaller illustrations by Strang, 18 by Cameron and a headpiece by R. L. Knowles. Bound by MacDonald, NY in..... More
London: William Pickering, 1836. Large paper copy. The First Nicholas Edition. Extra-Illustrated and expanded to four volumes. There are 318 extra plates, 23 colored. Bound by Riach in full green morocco with marbled endpapers, a.e.g., the spines with gilt titles and simple panel ornaments, the covers with a series of..... More