V.P. (1890's). Includes 7 songs with Black themes and pictorial covers. "At a Georgia Campmeeting", Darktown Parade", "Ma Rainbow Coon", "Darktown Is Out Tonight", etc. Some very nice pictorial lithographed covers. More about Twenty Music Sheets Bound Together
Newcastle: Printed by E. Walker for T. Bewick and Son, 1818. First edition, 500 copies printed in this format. Imperial 8vo (25.5 cm). xxiv,376p. Illustrated from the wood engravings of Thomas Bewick: 188 fables with 188 headpieces and 136 other vignettes. Bound in period tan calf, a.e.g., the spine with... More about THE FABLES OF AESOP, AND OTHERS, WITH DESIGNS ON WOOD BY THOMAS BEWICK
Paris: L. Curmer, 1861. Facsimile of the 15th century original. Edition of 850 copies. Folio. (ii), 12p. subscriber's list (ii), half-title, title, 474p. Text of the facsimile printed in red and black, each page with red-ruled frames. Bound in quarter purple crushed morocco with tan cloth sides, the spine in... More about LE LIVRE d'HEURES DE LA REINE ANNE DE BRETAGNE, traduit du latin et accompagné de notices...
Garden City, NY: Doubleday, 1970. Quarto. xi, 358p. + color maps and register for family history. Illustrated by Salvador Dali with 32 full-page color lithos. Bound in full white simulated leather with marbled endpapers, a.e.g. Copies in the white binding seen less often. More about THE JERUSALEM BIBLE
New York: Oxford University Press, n.d. [1896]. Miniature book (1 3/4" x 1 1/4"). 876p. Illustrated. Bound in full brown leather with embossed designs and gilt spine titles. Bible chained to a 5 1/2" wooden lectern with shelf for storing the Bible, magnifying glass in front pocket. Label on bottom... More about THE HOLY BIBLE CONTAINING THE OLD AND NEW TESTAMENTS
Edinburgh: Adam and Charles Black, 1862. 15 volumes. 8vo. Bound by Bridsall in quarter green calf with cloth sides and marbled endpapers, t.e.g., the spines each with two red title labels and fancy gilt panel ornaments. More about WORKS OF DE QUINCY
London: Nattali and Bond, with Pickering's engraved title page of 1853, 1855. Printed by C. Whittingham. xvi, 320p. The Nattali and Bond title page in red and black. Illustrated with 12 full-page steel engravings after Joseph Wolf. Each chapter with a separate half title, headpiece and decorated initial, and with... More about REYNARD THE FOX, AFTER THE GERMAN VERSION OF GOETHE
New York: The G. C. Hesselgren Publishing Co., 1908. First edition. Folio. 298p. ii, index. Fully illustrated with photos of elevations and colored floor plans, along with several photos and brief biographies of architects. Bound in publisher's full maroon pebbled cloth with gilt titles on spine and upper cover, the... More about APARTMENT HOUSES OF THE METROPOLIS
London: Richard Bentley, 1840. First edition. Four volumes. xix, 390p; xvi, 496p; xv, 512p; xix, 525p. Illustrated with four hand-colored frontispiece scenes, and Extra-Illustrated with forty-six plates and a few scenes, a few from the 18th century. Bound by Bayntun in half green crushed morocco with marbled sides and endpapers... More about MEMOIRS OF THE COURT OF ENGLAND DURING THE REIGN THE STUARTS, INCLUDING THE PROTECTORATE
Allahabad: A. H. Wheeler & Co., 1891. First (Indian) edition. 8vo. 4 leaves, 108p, 7 leaves of advertisements including "Opinions of the Press" (Both Livingston and Stewart list 5 leaves of ads). Original grey-green printed wrappers bound in; advertisements inside both covers. Bound by the Club Bindery in 1901 in... More about THE CITY OF DREADFUL NIGHT AND OTHER PLACES
Milan: Dalla Societa Tipografica de' classici Italiani, 1804. 256p. Illustrated with engraved portrait frontispiece, vignette title, ornate headpiece, 3 engraved plates (two folding) and 56 numbered plates (plate 20 bound after plate 32). Handsomely rebound with leather spine over marbled boards, the spine with red and black title labels gilt, and with gilt panel ornaments. More about TRATTATO DELLA PITTURA DI LIONARDO DA VINCI
Kingsport, TN: Kingsport Press, 1929. Miniature book (7/8" x 5/8"). 160p. Printed from moveable type. Bound in full red leather with gilt titles, a.e.g. Spielmann 297: Bradbury No. 2. More about ADDRESSES
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Brimingham: Printed by John Baskerville for J. and R. Tonson, 1759. Second setting of the type. Paradise in the uncancelled state with "Sampson" erased and overprinted "Samson" Two volumes. (viii), lxxii. 416p; (ii). 390p. Quarto. Portrait frontispiece signed Miller. Bound in later straight-grained red morocco with marbled endpapers, a.e.g., the..... More about PARADISE LOST. A POEM IN TWELVE BOOKS. [with] PARADISE REGAIN'D. A POEM IN FOUR BOOKS. To which...
Philadelphia: John Ball, 1849. Vol. II dated 1852, both engraved titles dated 1850. Two volumes. 404p; 471p. Steel-engraved frontispieces and title pages and two other engraved plates. Bound in publisher's blue cloth with yellow endpapers, a.e.g., the spines with gilt titles and dense floral ornaments surrounding a standing lady with... More about POETICAL WORKS OF JAMES MONTGOMERY. WITH A MEMOIR OF THE AUTHOR BY THE REV. RUFUS W. GRISWOLD
London: Printed for Noel Douglas by Percy Lund Humphries and Company Limited at the Country Press Bradford, 1927. Limited to 100 copies on hand made rag paper, this no. 93. Replica of Fitzgerald's first edition published by Quaritch in 1859. Bound in gilt-titled full vellum. Potter 124. More about RUBAIYAT OF OMAR KHAYYAM, THE ASTRONOMER-POET OF PERSIA. TRANSLATED INTO ENGLISH VERSE
New York: Frederick Warne, (1908). First American edition. [iv], 70p. Illustrated by Potter, including color frontispiece and 17 plates in color. Dark red ribbed cloth with titles in green and gilt and with pictorial label of mouse, illustrated endpapers. Quinby 15A. More about THE ROLY-POLY PUDDING
London: William Heinemann, 1909. Deluxe Edition Limited to 1000 Copies Signed by Rackham, this no. 421. viii, 136p. Illustrated by Arthur Rackham with 15 tipped in color plates and 30 text drawings and title vignettes. In the original vellum boards, t.e.g., the spine with gilt titles and pictorial devices, the... More about UNDINE
London: Moxon, 1856. Two volumes. EXTRA-ILLUSTRATED with 71 fine engravings, including 8 copper engravings by C.W. Sherborn. 8vo. Bound by Wood in full drak blue crushed morocco, similar to the style of the Doves Bindery, with elabotate floral ornaments in each spine compartment and at the corners of the covers... More about RECOLLECTIONS OF THE TABLE-TALK OF SAMUAL ROGERS. TO WHICH IS ADDED PORSONIANA
New York: Serigrafia, [1990]. Limited to 300 copies, this no. 82 (100 copies were donated to the Children's Health Fund, NY). Boxed suite of six elephant folio brilliant color serigraphs, each to illustrate a fairy tale story. Each serigraph measures 20 3/4" X 27" and is enclosed in a glassine... More about MOTHER GOOSE COLLECTION
Chicago: James N. Simms, 1923. First issue. 305p. Illustrated. Blue cloth with titles in orange on spine and upper cover. More about SIMMS' BLUE BOOK AND NATIONAL NEGRO BUSINESS AND PROFESSIONAL DIRECTORY
Norton, MA: Herbert Steiner, Wheaton College. Printed by Victor and Jacob Hammer at the Wells College Press, Aurora, NY, 1945, 1946, 1947, 1952, 1955. Limited to 300, 300, 250, 280, 280 copies respectively. Quarto in printed wraps. Five volumes, complete run. Contributors include: Jorge Guillen, St.-J. Perse, Hugo von Hofmannsthal... More about MESA
Impressum Parisiis: Cura Edwini Tross, 1858. First Tross edition. Miniature book (2 3/4" x 1 3/4"). [iv], 155p. Frontispiece. Bound by Amand in full morocco with marbled endpapers, a.e.g., the spine with gilt title and elaborate panel ornaments, triple fillets on the covers, single on the board edges, gilt dentelles... More about DE IMITATIONE CHRISTI, LIBRI QUATUOR
London: Bradbury and Evans, 1859. Tall folio (22"). 13 plates drawn by Twopeny and etched by W.S. Wilkinson. Gilt-titled brown cloth over boards. INSCRIBED & SIGNED by Author. More about SPECIMENS OF ANCIENT WOOD-WORK
London: Henry G. Bohn, 1856. First Jesse Edition. xx, 498p. Small 8vo. Edited by Edward Jesse. 203 woodcuts (actually 207), and 26 full-page steel engravings. Many artists including Huysmans, Lely, Archer, Absolon, Bewick, Hofland, Cruikshank, Creswick, Jardine, Jacklson, Landells, Lizars, Linton, Robinson, etc. Bound in quarter brown crushed morocco with... More about THE COMPLETE ANGLER, OR THE CONTEMPLATIVE MAN'S RECREATION
New York: Jonathan Cape & Harrison Smith, (1930). Number 183 of 501 copies signed by the translator. Frontispiece signed by Lynd Ward. xxi, 262p. Illustrated by Lynd Ward with six full-page tipped-in woodcuts. Gilt-titled blue cloth spine with pattern paper boards with circular designs highlighted in gilt with matching endpapers, t.e.g. More about FAUST, A TRAGEDY