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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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London: George G.Harrap, n.d. [1916]. Large 8vo. 167p. Translated by Dante Gabriel Rossetti. Illustrated by Evelyn Paul with color plates (some mounted) and decorations on every page. Title page and some plates highlighted in gold. Bound in full brown embossed and carved leather with illustrated endpapers and with three wrap-around..... More
London: George Routledge and Sons, 1881. Staunton Edition. No. 622 of 1000 copies of the Edition De Luxe. 15 volumes. Imperial 8vo. Illustrated by Sir John Gilbert on India paper mounted on the page. Bound by Orrock and Son in full red calf with marbled endpapers, a.e.g., the spines in... More
London: Chatto & Windus, 1876. First edition. Two volumes. Large thick quarto. vi (ii), 527p; xi, 448p. Profusely illustrated with text drawings, 21 tinted full-page plates, 14 chromolithographs as call for in the plate list, and an additional 5 chromolithographs mounted in Vol. II. Beautifully bound by Bayntun-Riviere in half... 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
[Boston and New York: Houghton, Mifflin and Company] Cambridge: Printed at he Riverside Press, 1897. Large Paper Edition Limited to 250 Copies Signed by Aldrich. Autograph copy No. 214. First collected edition. Eight volumes. Quite elegantly bound in full gray crushed morocco with watered silk flyleaves, t.e.g., the spines with... More
Boston: The Bibliophile Society, 1905. A deluxe edition printed on Japan vellum limited to 447 copies, this copy of only a few with original watercolors throughout. Three volumes. lix, 195p; xxv, 229p; xv, 248p. The idylls are printed in English on the rectos and in Greek on the facing versos... More
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Boston: R. H. Hinkley Comapny, n.d. A later issue without the publication statements (perhaps 1930?). 14 volumes. Illustrated with plates after famous artists designed and electrotyped by D. B. Updike at The Merrymount Press. In a publisher's binding of full tan pigskin, the spine titles and panels ornaments embossed in... More
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Avignon: M. V. Seguin, 1805. "Nouvelle Edition" Together four volumes. Small 8vo. (iv), xxx, 288p; (iv), 300p; (iv), 232p; (iv),221p. Translated by Anna Dacier. Two engraved frontispieces, the Iliad with six additional engraved plates, two folding. Bound in full period speckled calf with marbled endpapers, the spines densely gilt with... More