Lugduni Batavorum [Lyon]: Ioan Maire, 1646. Miniature book (3 11/16"). (iv), 380p. Text in Latin on the rectos with Greek facing. Bound in full red morocco, a.e.g., the spine with titles in two panels, the upper cover with stylized initials of William Sterling Maxwell, elaborate dentelles. With the bookplate of..... More
Los Angeles: Claycraft Potteries, [c.1921-1939). Quarto pamphlet in color-printed stapled wrappers. Unpaged (32p). Copiously illustrated. Arts and Crafts style. Consisting of "Tiles for bathrooms. floors, fountains or mantels. Decorative panels and friezes of stock designs, or made to suggestion in a number of types and finishes. Ornamental inserts for wall..... More
London: Shakespeare Press, 1817. First edition. Three volumes. Royal 8vo, 250 cm. (vi), vi, (ii, corrections and additions), ccxxvi, 410p, (ii); (iv), 536p, (ii); (iv), 544p, (ii, additional erratum). Copiously illustrated with wood and copper engravings including 35 full-page plates. Bound by the Monastery Hill Bindery in full brown morocco..... More
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
Westminster: Aris & Phillips Ltd, 1976. First edition thus. 8v0. xxxix, 136p. Translated by John Charles Edward Bowen. With an illustration at the head of each quatrain by [Phyllis Mackenzie] including Persian script by Sharafuddin Khorassani Sharaf and a color frontispiece. Issued in paper and bound by Sangorski & Sutcliffe..... More
Boponti [Zweibrucken or DeuxPonts, Bacaria]: Ex Typographia Societatis, 1790. Editio Accurata. 8vo. (ii), xxxvi, 252p. Preliminary matter is Vita and Notitia Literaria. Bound in contemporary straight-grained morocco with marbled endpapers and text block edges, the spine with gilt titles and simple panel ornaments, the covers with double fillet gilt borders..... More
Glasgow: Bryce & Son, [c.1900]. Miniature book (3 1/2" x 2 1/2'). 160p. A "Mauchline" ware binding with gilt decorated red leather spine and varnished sycamore wooden sides, the upper cover with a transfer design of Dryburch Abbey, text block edges stained red. With printed text and music notation. Welsh..... More
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London: J. M. Dent, 1902. Limited to 250 copies, this no. 217. Together three volumes. 8vo. With three engraved frontispieces and 150 illustrations by H. M. Brock, all hand-colored, including full-page plates, text drawings, head- and tail-pieces. Extra-Illustrated with 107 plates: 61 portraits and 46 scenes - 2 hand-colored. Bound..... More
London: Nisbet & Co., n.d. (1922). First edition. Tall 8vo. (viii), 312p. Illustrated with eight full-page color plates by F. Cayley Robinson. Bound in publisher's tan cloth with pictorial spine in green and white featuring a full figure knight, the upper cover with central figural bust in green, pictorial endpapers..... More
London: Privately printed and [published for the Maison Quantin], 1887. Limited to 550 copies, this no. 533. Folio. xxii, 243p. "A new translation with a new preface by the author." Illustrated with 40 photogravures and etchings by Albert Lynch (1851-1912). Each chapter head with a drawing by Lynch in heliogravure..... More
London: John Russell Smith, 1874. Second edition. Two volumes, lv (iii), 299p; (iv), 275p. Engraved frontispiece. Bound by Stikeman & Co. in full tan crushed morocco, t.e.g., the spine with gilt titles, gilt ruled board edges, fancy dentelles. Front turn-ins signed C. E. S. Wood. Scholarly edition with notes. More
London: Rivington, Payne, Wilkie and Robinson, et. al, 1812. Two volumes. 13p, (iii), 478p; (iv),466p. Frontispiece. Bound in quarter blue calf with cloth sides with marbled endpapers and text block edges, the spines with red and brown title labels gilt,, the volumes numbers on small oval onlays, the panels with..... More
London: Septimus Prowett, 1825-27. "A New Edition" Originally published in 1744. 13 volumes (12 + later supplement). Uniformly bound by Zahensdorf in full light tan calf with marbled endpapers, a.e.g., the spines with two blue title labels gilt, the panels densely gilt. Originally published in 1744. The 13th volume is..... More
New York: D. Appleton, 1855. Two volumes. xx, 588p; xvii, 548p 12p ads. Illustrated with 16 engraved portraits. Bindings signed W. H. French in quarter red crushed morocco with tan cloth sides and marbled endpapers, t.e.g., the spines in six panels with ornate frames and central gilt crowns... More
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
New York: Brentanos, n.d. [c. 1906]. Two volumes. xxv (iii), 172p: (viii), 173-394p. Two mezzotint portrait frontispieces, 20 engraved plates. Bound by Trow in full red crushed morocco with marbled endpapers, t.e.g. the spine with gilt titles and panel ornaments, the covers with large central device and large cornerpieces... More
Paris: Laplace, Sanchez, n.d. [1884]. Small 8vo. (iv) 615p. Large print. Illustrated with four steel-engraved plates and a frontispiece in chromolithography by Emrik & Binger, Haarlem. Bound in full tortoiseshell with watered silk endpapers, a.e.g., with tortoiseshell clasps, the upper cover with borders of lace work silver overlay. A lovely..... 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
London: Bradbury & Evans, 1852. First edition. xi, 212p., 8p ads. Illustrated. Extra-illustrated with 35 portraits, 8 colored. Bound for Charles W. Sawyer, London by Sangorski & Sutcliffe in full red crushed morocco, t.e.g. in cosway style with a hand-colored oval portrait of Nell Gwyn under glass mounted on the..... More
New York: Collins Design for The Smithsonian Institution, (2007). First edition. Tall quarto. 128p. Foreword by Robert Dallek. Illustrated throughout from photos by Avedon. Printed on coated stock in various colors: black, white, gray, yellow, &c. More
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
Vienna: Lithographic Institute, c. 1797. First separate edition of this overture. Plate mark 12. Oblong quarto. 7p. Bound in thick marbled paper. Very early example of music printing in lithography. "The earliest surviving lithographed book that I know of is the important catalogue of Mozart's work edited by A. Andre..... More
London: Chapman and Hall, 1891. Three volumes. 8vo. Bound by Bickers and Son in full tree calf with marbled endpapers and text block edges, the spines densely gilt with title labels in dark green and brown. More
London: Partridge and Oakley, (1847, spine date 1848). Three volumes. Quarto. xii, 1012; iv, 1178p; viii, 1084p. Frontispiece scene, frontis. of Matthew Henry, many decorative capitals, text illustrations, &c. Bound in full black diced calf with marbled endpapers and text block edges, the spines with gilt titles on a maroon..... More
Parma: De l'Imprimerie Bodoni, 1812. 8vo. Half-title, title, (vii, dedication), 208p. In a unique binding of full brown diced calf with marbled endpapers, deckle edges, the flat spine with gilt title and many decorative bands, the covers framed with ruled patterns of tulips, palmettes, &c, the outer band in gilt..... More