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THE CONQUEROR, BEING THE TRUE AND ROMANTIC STORY OF ALEXANDER HAMILTON.
New York: Macmillan, 1902. First edition, first printing with page 546 number in upper left corner.Inscribed & Signed by Gertrude Atherton 1941. 8vo. iv, 546p, (iv, ads). In the publisher's binding on maroon ribbed cloth, t.e.g., the spine and upper cover with white titles and ornamental gilt designs signed "W..... More
D. MAGNI AUSONII BURDIGALENSIS OPERA:
Paris: Typis Jacobi Guerin, ad Ripam Augustinianorum, 1730. Quarto. lxvi, 684p, (ii), 16p, (cl, index). Extra engraved and illustrated title page including the arms of the Dauphin, engraved head- and tail-pieces, an engraved chart and an inserted engraved plate.Bound in full red morocco, the spine with gilt titles and panel..... More
THE NATIONAL COMPREHENSIVE FAMILY BIBLE. THE HOLY BIBLE WITH THE COMMENTARIES OF SCOTT AND HENRY, AND CONTAINING ALSO MANY THOUSAND CRITICAL AND EXPLANATORY NOTE SELECTED FROM THE GREAT STANDARD AUTHORS OF EUROPE AND AMERICA.
London: Lewis & C0. n.d. (c. 1880's). Folio. xv, 1215p., 34p (Concise Biblical Cyclopaedia). Extra title page illustrated in chromolithography and with many full page plates in chromolithography and in black and white. Bound in heavily embossed full black crushed morocco over beveled boards, a.e.g., the spine with gilt title..... More
THE BOOK OF AHANIA.
London: Trianon Press, 1973. First edition thus, limited to 808 copies on Arches paper. Folio. Color facsimile reproduction of the illuminated pages by the collotype and stencil process. Gilt-titled morocco spine with marbled boards. More
THERE IS NO NATURAL RELIGION.
London: The Trianon Press, 1971. First edition. No. 197 of 616 copies. Two volumes. Folio and octavo. The plates reproduced by the collotype and hand-stencil process. Bound in gilt-titled quarter morocco with marbled sides. Both volumes housed in matching divided slipcase. More
THE DECAMERON.
London: Gibbings & Co., 1911. Four volumes. Octavo. Each volume with decorated title and reproductions of 18th century plates on coated stock. Bound in quarter black straight grained morocco with marbled endpapers, t.e.g., the spines with gilt titles and ornaments in the panels of blossoms and vines. More
LE SOLITAIRE.
Paris and London: XXe Siecle and Zwemmer, (1959). No. 441 of 900 copies. Small oblong quarto. 57p. Illustrated by Georges Braque with eight full-page water colors printed by Daniel Jacomet. Bound in white cloth, the upper cover with titles and a Braque design in three colors. More
RELIGIO MEDICI, LETTER TO A FRIEND &c. AND CHRISTIAN MORALS.
London: Macmillan, 1923. Small 8vo. lvi, 392p. With a fine FORE-EDGE PAINTING, perhaps of Southwark Cathedral beyond old London Bridge. Bound by Zaehnsdorf in full morocco, a.e.g., marbled endpapers, dentelles. More
THE PILGRIM'S PROGRESS.
London: Henry Frowde, Oxford University Press, 1903. Limited to 1000 copies, this no. 468, signed by Edwin Truman. Imperial 8vo. xxxix, 308p, 4p subscribers list. Illustrated with 25 drawings on wood by George Cruikshank from the collection of Edwin Truman - first appearance of these illustrations. The plates are printed..... More
TRAITS AND STORIES OF THE IRISH PEASANTRY.
London: George Routledge & Co., (1854). Two volumes. xxiv, 427p; (iv), 430p. With illustrations on wood and steel by Phiz, Harvey, MacManus and Franklin. Bound by Morrell in half golden tan calf with tan cloth sides and marbled endpapers, t.e.g., the spines with red and black labels gilt, the panels..... More
OFFICIUM HEBDOMADAE SANCTAE SECUNDUM MISSALE ET BREVIARUM ROMANUM: S. PII V. PONT. MAXIMI JUSSU EDITUM, CLEMENTIS VIII. ET URBANI VIII. AUCTORITATE RECOGNITUM.
Vienna: Joannis Thomae Trattner, 1759. Small 8vo. 538p. printed throughout in red and black. Bound in full period calf with pattern paper end sheets, text block edges stained red, the spine with title label gilt and with elaborate gilt decoration, with elaborate silver heart and flowers catches and matching clasp..... More
THE LISPING GODDESS.
London: Privately printed for Sir William Russell Flint at the Stanbrook Abbey Press, 1968. No. 140 of 215 copies signed by W. Russell Flint (total edition 275). Folio. 113p. Illustrated by W. Russell Flint's drawings in collotype, the first two in full color. Printed 0n Hodgkinson's Wookey Hole Mill handmade..... More
ETCHINGS ON THE LOIRE AND IN THE SOUTH OF FRANCE.
London: John Murray, 1875. Folio (14 3/4"). Twenty full-page mounted etchings, each with a page of descriptive letterpress. Bound in original terra-cotta cloth over beveled boards with vertical spine titles in gilt, the upper cover with large gilt-ruled frames and titles, design repeated in blind on lower cover. Bookplate reading..... More
REYNARD THE FOX, AFTER THE GERMAN VERSION OF GOETHE.
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
45 WOOD-ENGRAVERS.
West Yorkshire: Simon Lawrence, printed at The Whittington Press, (1982). No. 180 of 350 copies. Quarto. Unpaged. (xvii), 45 plates, colophon. The engravings printed from blocks on the rectos only, presenting 45 different artists. Frontispiece engraving by Margaret Wells, colophon engraving by Miriam Macgregor. With gilt-titled green cloth spine over..... More
THE MINT. A DAY-BOOK OF THE R. A. F. DEPOT BETWEEN AUGUST AND DECEMBER 1922 WITH LATER NOTES BY 352087 A/c ROSS.
London: Jonathan Cape, (1955). First English Edition, Limited Issue. No. 132 of 2000. (ii), 206p. Bound in gilt-titled quarter blue morocco over blue cloth with marbled endpapers, t.e.g. O'Brien A172. More
THE FARMER'S YEAR, A CALENDAR OF ENGLISH HUSBANDRY.
New York: Longmans, Green, 1933. First American edition. Oblong folio (15 1/4"). Illustrated by Clare Leighton with full-page wood engravings, one for each month. Bound in black cloth with gilt titles on spine and upper cover and with gilt vignette of farmer on cover, pattern paper endpapers by Leighton. Clare..... More
IL PETRARCA. NOVISSIMAMENTE REVISTO, E CORRETTO DA M. LODOVICO DOLCE.
Venice: GabrielnGiolito de Ferrari e Fratelli, 1553. 32mo (13.5 cm). 386p, (x, index). Bound in full contemporary yapp vellum with marbled endpapers, spine titles hand lettered. Illustrated with some woodcuts and historiated initials. Trionfi with special title page, and title for each Trionfi with historiated initial and/or woodcut illustration. More
GRAVELOT.
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
DIE HOLZSCHNITTE DES PETRARCA-MEISTERS ZU PETRARCAS WERK VON DER ARTZNEY BAYDER GLUCK, DES GUTEN UND WIDERWARTIGEN, AUGSBURG, 1532.
Berlin: Henschelverlag, 1955. Folio. 354p. Illustrated throughout. Extra-Illustrated with 15 original woodcuts from the 16th century book: 14 leaves containing 15 cuts loosely laid in, 4 having been hand colored. Bound in publisher's full black cloth with gilt titles on upper cover, the spine with gilt titles on a green..... More
THE PLAYS OF WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE IN MINIATURE.
London: C. Whittingham for John Sharpe, 1803-1804. "Sharpe's Edition" Nine volumes. 12mo (4 1/4"). Portrait frontispiece in Vol. 9. Bound in full red straight grained morocco, a.e.g., the spines simply stated Shakespeare in gilt along with rules, volume numbers, and simple gilt ornaments. Makeshift bookplate of Sir George Denys. This..... More
THE SEASONS.
London: Longmans, Hurst, Rees, and Orme. Printed by T. Bensley, 1807. This edition reprints the 1798 edition in which the engravings first appeared; these are the same strikes dated 1798. Folio (18"). [x], 244p. Illustrated with 21 engravings in stipple and line (5 full page) by F. Bartolozzi and P.W...... More
MORNING NOTEBOOK.
Paris: Editions BIREN, (1979). No. 54 of 70 copies signed by Ann Walker (total edition 75). Octavo size. Seven single-fold leaves on hemp paper, deckle edged. Five leaves with two to four lines of poetry and an original etching in color by Ann Walker, each etching initialed in pencil by..... More
THE YELLOW BARN PRESS. A HISTORY AND BIBLIOGRAPHY.
Council Bluffs, IA: The Yellow Barn Press, 2001. N0. 17 of 175 copies. Tall quarto. xvii, 122p, 20 pages of plates. Illustrated throughout from photos, tipped-in photos, engravings and pages from the press. Bound in quarter black morocco over patter papers designed by John DePol. Housed in solander box of..... More