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
London: C. Hitch, C. Davis, S. Austen, 1736. First edition. 8vo. unpaged. 306 leaves. Engraved frontispiece in five separate pictures of domestic scenes. Bound in 19th century quarter calf with pebbled cloth sides, the spine with gilt title and small simple gilt ornaments, red speckled text block edges. "Shewing, I.... More
Edinburgh: Printed by Bensley and punlished for the Author, by Longman, Hurst, Rees, and Orme, 1809. First edition. Quarto. (iv), 134p, 8 leaves ads. Complete with dedication leaf. Bound in original boards with paper spine label. Wide-margined untrimmed copy. Housed in slipcase with morocco spine gilt. With a two-page ALs... More
England: Nonesuch Press, 1935. Limited to 500 copies, this no. 328. Tall quarto. [viii], 130p. Edited by Stephen Potter. Printed at the Fanfare Press on Auvergne paper. Illustrated with three wood engravings by Stefan Mrozewski; title page design and vignette of Nonesuch Palace by Berthold Wolpe. All edges untrimmed, top... More
New York: The Century Co. (1894). First edition. Quarto. xii, 144p. Illustrated throughout with drawings by Palmer Cox. Bound in color-printed and glazed boards. The Brownies' Fourth Book. More
London: James R. Osgood, McIlvaine & Co. 1892. First English edition. Two volumes. Half-title in each vol. (iv), 213p, (iii); (iv), 235p (i). Illustrated by Du Maurier with vignette title and 85 line-engraved drawings, both full-page and in the text. Bound by Riviere in full blue crushed morocco with marbled... More
London: Cassell (NY: Scribner's), (1928). First edition. Limited to 1000 copies SIGNED by Dulac (this no. 334). 4to. 251p. Illustrated by Edmund Dulac with 12 full-page color plates. Bound with gilt-titled vellum spine over blue cloth boards, t.e.g. Hughey 74. More
New York: Argosy-Antiquarian, 1965. Edition de Luxe Limited to 90 sets, with an original leaf of the rare first edition of the first history of California. Venegas Noticia de la California, Madrid, 1757. This copy no. 63. Four volumes, including index. Introduction by Archibald Hanna, Jr. Bound in quarter maroon... More
London: C. Kegan Paul, 1880. Edited from the First Edition of 1531 by Henry Herbert Stephen Croft. Two volumes. cxcviii, 352p; x, 660p. Illustrated with frontispieces of Sir Thomas and Lady Elyot. Bound by Frost in half brown crushed morocco with cloth sides and marbled endpapers, t.e.g., the spines with... More
London: Duckworth & Co. 1910. Small 8vo. viii, 158p. [i, ads]. Applied cover of light gray fabric, the upper cover embroidered with four large flowers and trailing vines in gold thread, the flowers and leaves in red, white, apricot and green. Binding executed by "Mrs. Evershed, 59, South Molton St.... 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
London: The Studio, 1902. First edition. Quarto. A collection of six illustrated essays by various authors representing European countries. Illustrated with many full-page plates in color and black and white, one color plate printed on silk. Bound in gilt-titled quarter vellum over beveled boards with marbled sides and endpapers, t.e.g.... More
London: Printed by James Bettenham, and sold by G. Hawkins, 1757-1771. Third edition. Four volumes. Quarto. Illustrated with 4 copper-engraved frontispieces, 11 plates (7 folding) and 17 folding maps. Bound in full contemporary calf, the spines with brown title labels gilt, the panels densely gilt. More
London: Macmillan and Co. 1896. Limited to 500 Large Paper Copies. Quarto. xx, 436p. Illustrated by Joseph Pennell including 12 original lithographs. Introduction by Elizabeth Robins Pennell. Beautifully bound in quarter red crushed morocco with marbled sides and endpapers, t.e.g., the spine with gilt titles and elaborately gilt panels featuring... More
London: John Stockdale, 1811. Four volumes. xliv, 721p; 585p; 624p; 607p. Engraved portraits of each. Printed in double columns. Bound in full period diced calf, the flat spines with gilt titles and ornamental bands and devices. Lowndes III: 1230. More
London: Macmillan and Co. and New york, 1888. [vi], 302p. Printed in red and black and presented in calendar form. With an excellent fore-edge painting of "View of Cambridge Showing St. John's College + 'The Backs'". Bound by Birdsall in full blue pebbled morocco with marbled endpapers, a.e.g., the spine... More
London: T. Fisher Unwin, printed at the Gresham Press, 1892. First edition with an original drawing mounted as frontispiece. Small 8vo. xii, 149p. Illustrated with 100 drawings within the text, each within an oval. Bound by Stikeman & Co. in half red crushed morocco with cloth sides, the spine in... More
London: David Nutt, 1889. Reprint of the original edition of William Caxton, printed at the Ballantyne Press. Two volumes. xviii, 861p. This is the text volume (extended into two volumes). Two volumes were added later with bibliographical history and sources. Hence the glossary and Andrew Lang's essay are not included... More
London: Ernest Benn, 1925. First edition, limited to 1015 copies numbered by hand by Morison, this copy one of 650 in English. Folio (19"). lxiv, [ii]. Illustrated with 328 plates in facsimile. Bound in half linen with black cloth sides and linen title label. Scarce, especially in dust jacket. More
Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1884. Edward Fitzgerald translation. Folio (15 7/8"). Unpaged. Illustrated by Elihu Vedder. Bound in brown cloth over beveled boards, t.e.g., the cover and spine with elaborate designs in gilt by Vedder, illustrated endpapers. Vedder's striking designs display beautifully in this rare folio edition. More
Chicago: Walter W. Schmauch, 1951. Never Published. Manuscript typescript. Quarto. 219p with supplemental pages. A meticulously done typescript beautifully bound with all the appearance of a published book. The author has tipped in and bound in attributed illustrations and material from many sources. Bound by the Monastery Hill Bindery, Chicago... More
New York: Society of Shakespearean Editors, (1909). Ten volumes. Color frontispiece. Bound in quarter blue-gray morocco with cloth sides and marbled endpapers, t.e.g., the spines with gilt titles and gilt device of a coat-of-arms in the center spine panel. More
Rochester: Printing House of Leo Hart, 1931. Limited to 1250 copies Signed by Rockwell Kent, this no. 1111. Illustrated by Rockwell Kent. 4to. Gilt-titled leather spine over linen boards, t.e.g. Printed in black and brown on French-fold paper with typography by Will Ransom. Quite scarce with the spine still in fine... More
New York: Farrar, Straus & Giroux, (1983). First illustrated edition, limited to 450 copies SIGNED BY AUTHOR AND ARTIST. 58p, [v]. Designed and illustrated by Antonio Frasconi with woodcuts, some in black, some in orange. Gilt-titled white cloth in brown slipcase. More
London: George G. Harrap, (1931). Signed/limited edtion. Limited to 775 copies, this no. 254 signed by Arthur Rackham. Quarto. 224p. Illustrated by Arthur Rackham with text drawings and twelve full-page color plates with captioned tissue guards. Illustrated title page in green and black. Bound in publisher's full vellum with illustrated... More