Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1844 [NT dated 1843]. Pearl 8vo. (6 1/2" tall). Unpaged. Printed in double columns. Sumptuously bound in full red velvet with patterned silk endpapers, a.e.g., gilt spine title, covers with very ornate polished brass frames with mounted brass leaf corner pieces, all edges ornately gauffered with..... More
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London: Printed by William Bulmer, at the Shakespeare Press for William Miller, 1808. A new Edition; With copious Notes, and a Biographical and Literary Introduction. By The Rev. T. F. Dibdin, F.S.A. Large 8vo. clxxx, 464p (i, corrections). Engraved frontispiece portrait, a full-page plate and wood cuts in the text..... More
Monaco: Editions du Rocher, 1945. No. 528 of 650 copies. First edition. 8vo.xvi (ii), 82p, colophon. Illustrated with a frontispiece by Leon Zack and vignettes by Louis Tassin. Bound in half medium brown crushed morocco with snake like patters paper boards, with fabric patterned endpapers, gilt spine titles in uneven..... More
London: Strahan and Co., 1870. Small 8vo. (viii), 222p. Bound in Art Deco style in full brown morocco with geometric designs formed with onlaid patterns in black, tan and brown highlighted in gilt, black title labels gilt on upper and lower covers, the spine with similar designs, a.e.g. Signed 'REN"..... More
Paris: A. Quantin, 1883. First edition. Tall 8vo. [iv], iv, 138p, [i, printer's imprint]. Illustrated throughout after watercolors by Paul Avril in the text and the borders and as vignettes. Pages without watercolors have decorative frames around the text. In an inlaid binding by Kauffmann, the front dentelle signed Kauffmann-Petit..... More
London: Burns Oates & Eashbourne Ltd, 1923. First "Complete Edition" 8vo. x, 144p, [iv, ads]. Frontispiece portrait engraved by Emery Walker after a drawing by John Singer Sargent. Bound in full dark blue morocco with marbled endpapers, the spine heavily gilt with ornamental bands, the panels featuring a central flower..... 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
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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: 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
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
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
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Paris: Didot, 1832. "Segundo Edicion en Miniatura" Two volumes. 16 mo. (4 7/8"), xx, (ii), 351p; xii, (ii), 377p. Title page in each volume on coated stock. Illustrated with frontispiece and 10 engraved plates by Stalker, hand-colored map. Bound by Simier in cathedral bindings of full red morocco, a.e.g. with..... More
Boston: Bradley Whidden, 1900. Limited to 500 copies (no. 116). Two volumes. x (vi), 161p; xi (v), 163-361p. With over 400 photographic illustrations, including over 100 with transfers of species from life - ACTUAL WINGS. Bound in full green crushed morocco with marbled endpapers, t.e.g., the spines with gilt titles..... More
London: Casssell and Company, 1894-97. First British Edition. Four tall quarto volumes. Illustrated with 48 full-page steel engravings and about 800 wood engravings. Original publisher's aqua cloth over beveled boards, a.e.g., the spines and upper covers with gilt titles and elaborate ornamentation in gilt and red. "This is one of..... More
Paris: Gruel et Engelmann, 1898. Small 8vo. 176p, [vi]. Extremely fine chromolithography highlighted in gilt by R. Engelmann. Each page with a different medieval style border and several full page plates in somber tones. Bound [by Gruel] in full golden tan crushed morocco with watered silk endpapers, a.e.g., the text..... More