BAROQUE BOOK ILLUSTRATION. A SHORT SURVEY.
Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1951. First edition. (vi), 43p. + 149 plates. Gilt-titled green cloth. More
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GERMAN BAROQUE LITERATURE, A CATALOGUE OF THE COLLECTION IN THE YALE UNIVERSITY LIBRARY.
New Haven: Yale University Press, 1958. First edition. Quarto. xlii, 496p. Bound in original red cloth with spine titles in gilt. Indexed by authors, composers and illustrators. More
ANTARCTIC BIBLIOGRAPHY.
New York: Greenwood Press, (1968). Reprint of the original 1951 edition by the U.S. Government Printing Office. Quarto. vi, 147p. Three fold-out maps in rear. Bound in gilt-titled black cloth. More
BIBLIOGRAPHIE DER LIVRES D'HEURES... DES XV. UND XVI. JAHRHUNDERTS.
Mansfield, CT: Maurizio Martino, [1996]. Reprint of the 1924 Gilhofer & Ranschburg edition. [viii], 92p. Bound in mauve cloth with gilt spine titles. An annotated checklist of over 2,000 printed books of hours classified by geographical region and cross referenced. Brief collations. Standard reference. More
PHOTOGRAPHIC LITERATURE, An International Guide to General and Specialized Literature on Photographic Processes...
Mansfield, CT: Maurizio Martino, [1994]. Reprint Limited to 150 copies. xvi, 335p. Gilt-titled aqua buckram. An index of 12,000 books, pamphlets and periodicals. Alphabetical arrangement covering Leonardo's awareness of the camera obscura through 1960. Sheehy EF192. More
PICTURING NATURE, American Nineteenth-Century Zoological Illustration.
Princeton: Princeton University Press, (1993). First edition. Quarto. xxxiv, 403p. Illustrated, including many color plates. Gilt-titled brown cloth. More
ENCYCLOPEDIA OF WORLD FAITHS, An Illustrated Survey of the World's Living Religions.
London: Macdonald Orbis, (1987). First edition. Quarto. 352p. Illustrated. Silver-titled blue cloth. More
EVIDENCE FOR SCHOLARSHIP, ESSAYS ON PROBLEMS OF ATTRIBUTION.
Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, (1966). First edition. xiv, 559p. Tan cloth with blue spine titles. More
BOOKS OF HE CENTURY: A Hundred Years of Authors, Ideas and Literature.
New York: Times Books, Random House, (1998). First edition. xxiv, 647p. Silver-titled blue cloth spine over blue boards. "...an extraordinary collection of the best writing about books and authors published in The New York Times Book Review, America's most widely read journal of the literary arts. Arranged chronologically from 1896... More
THE HOUSE OF LIFE.
New York: Oxford University Press, 1964. First American edition. 360p. Illustrated, including color fold-outs. Publisher's binding of gilt-titled red cloth spine, the covers in paper covered boards with overall design of repeating gryphons in red and cream highlighted with gilt. More
CONRAD GESSNER 1516-1565: Universalgelehrter Naturforscher Arzt.
Zurich: Orell Fussli, (1967). First edition. Quarto. 234p + colophon and contents. Illustrated, including 14 facsimiles and fold-outs. Bound in gray boards with overall design on cover with maroon spine titles. More
DALI: THE WINES OF GALA.
New York: Abrams, (1978). First edition in English. Tall quarto. 296p. Illustrated throughout in color by Dali. White cloth with gilt titles and color pictorial designs, illustrated endpapers. Gold foil dust jacket on heavy paper. More
THE BELLS AND OTHER POEMS.
London: Hodder and Stoughton, [1912]. Edition de luxe of 750 copies SIGNED BY DULAC, this no. 729. Unpaged. Illustrated by Edmund Dulac with 28 tipped-in color plates. 4to. Bound in original publisher's full vellum with gilt titles and all over designs of bells on spine and upper cover, t.e.g., ribbon... More
TOWARD OMEGA.
S. Denis, MA: Steven Albahari [21st editions], [2005]. No. 22 of 60 copies signed by the artist, poet, editor & publisher (only 40 copies for sale). Large format (14 3/8" x 11 1/2"). Edited and with an introduction by John Wood. Photographs by Vincent Serbin, typography and presswork by Michael... More
THE DUINO ELEGIES.
[South Denis, MA]: Steven Albahari. 21st Editions, [2005]. No. 35 of 60 copies (0nly 40 for sale). Signed by the artist, translators, editor, and publisher. Large format (15 3/4" x 13 3/8"). Illustrated with photographs by Josephine Sacabo, translated by Leslie Norris & Alan Keele, introduction by John Wood. The... More
ECCLESIASTES OR THE PREACHER.
Boston & New York: Houghton, Mifflin, 1911. No. 161 of 335 copies. Small 8vo. Designed by Bruce Rogers and printed in red and black with Tory borders on every page. Bound in original red boards with title on upper cover on an ornamental gilt ground. Work of Bruce Rogers #213; Warde & Haas #112. More
THE COMPLETE ANGLER, OR THE CONTEMPLATIVE MAN'S RECREATION.
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
CHILDE HAROLD'S PILGRIMAGE. A ROMAUNT.
London: Printed for John Murray; William Blackwood, Edinburgh; and John Cumming, Dublin. By Thomas Davison, White-Friars, 1812. First edition (Issued in 500 copies). Quarto. viii, 226p. Facsimile of a Romaic letter bound in as frontispiece. Issued without a half-title. Bound without the advertisements in full red levant with red watered... More
THE BOOK OF COMMON PRAYER, AND ADMINISTRATION OF THE SACRAMENTS, AND OTHER RITES AND CEREMONIES OF THE CHURCH, ACCORDING TO THE USE OF THE UNITED CHURCH OF ENGLAND AND IRELAND.
London: John Murray, 1845. Large octavo. xl, 484p. Designed by Owen Jones with the title in red and black surrounded by an ornamental gilt border, each page chromolithographed in red and black with ruled borders, decorative designs, initial letters, and with vignette illustrations and full-page chromo plates highlighted in gold... More
FRANCE HISTORIC AND ROMANTIC.
Philadelphia: Henry T. Coates, 1904. First edition. Two volumes. viii, , 386p; viii, 401p. Illustrated from photos. Bound in bright red cloth with brilliant gilt devices on the covers of coats-of-arms and fleur-de-lis, t.e.g. Housed in cloth slipcase. More
THE WORKS OF ALEXANDER POPE, ESQ. In Nine Volumes Complete. With His Last Corrections, Additions, and Improvements; As they were Delivered to the Editor a little before his Death: Together with the Commentaries and Notes of Mr. Warburton.
London: J. and P. Knapton, H. Linton, J. and R. Tonson, and S. Draper, 1751. First Warburton Edition and first posthumous edition. 9 volumes. 8vo. Illustrated with 24 copper engraved plates after Sam Wale, N. Blakey, Ant. Walker, and F. Hayman. Nicely bound in twentieth-century quarter black morocco with marbled... More
LE COSTUME HISTORIQUE. Cinq Cents Planches, Trois Cents ed Couleurs, or et Argent, Deux Cents en Camaieu.
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
THE INGOLDSBY LEGENDS OF MIRTH AND MARVEL.
London: Richard Bentley, 1864. A De Luxe Edition. Tall 8vo. xii, 428p. With 60 illustrations by George Cruikshank, John Leach, and John Tenniel. Beautifully bound for Brentano's by Bayntun in full green crushed morocco with marbled endpapers, a.e.g., the spine and covers with overall repeating patterns of Tudor roses and... More
JAPANESE FAIRY TALES.
Tokyo: T. Hasegawa, n.d (1899). Prezumed reprint edition without the Tale Numbers on the title pages. Five volumes. Printed from color woodblocks on creped paper with silk ties. Housed in blue folding cloth folder with white spine title and ivory clasps. Titles: The Boy Who Drew Cats, The Old Woman... More
ENDEAVOURS & EXPERIMENTS. John Buckland Wright's essays in woodcut and colour engraving, together with other blocks remaining in his studio.
Upper Denby, Huddersfield: The Fleece Press, 2004. Limited to 90 copies in quarter vellum accompanied by a print of Cafe Dansant No. 2 (total edition 300). Small folio. 71p + colophon. Preface by the author and Simon Lawrence. Bound in gilt-titled quarter vellum over pattern paper boards designed by Wright... More