Durhan, NC: W. Duke, Sons & Co., n.d. Small oblong quarto. 21 pages of rather brilliant chromolithographs, 10 with only one or two images per page, others with nine or ten cigarette card type images (Duke Sons was a cigarette manufacturer). Bound in stapled color-printed wraps. More about COSTUMES OF ALL NATIONS
Philadelphia: D. Rice & A.N. Hart, 1856. Four volumes. Quarto. 142 biographies, each illustrated with a full-page steel engraving. In publisher's embossed leather bindings, a.e.g., the covers with overall decoration and gilt titles on spines. More about THE NATIONAL PORTRAIT GALLERY OF DISTINGUISHED AMERICANS:
London & Glasgow: Gowans & Gray, 1926. First edition, seventh printing. 12mo. [iv, ads], 68p., [iv, ads] Original parchment wrappers with design in black, green, and yellow by Jessie M. King. Gowans's Nature Books. No. 46. Paul Harris and Sotheby's. Jessie M. King and E. A. Taylor Illustrator and Designer. p.... More about OUR TRESS AND HOW TO KNOW THEM
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London: The Punch Office, n.d. [c. 1864]. Three volumes bound as two. Large 8vo. xviii, 320p, 304p; xii, 308p. Profusely illustrated by John Leech with many wood engravings and 30 hand-colored steel engravings. Uniformly bound by Riviere in full blue polished calf with marbled endpapers, a.e.g., the spines with red..... More about THE COMIC HISTORY OF ENGLAND [with] THE COMIC HISTORY OF ROME
New York: R. H. Russell and Son, 1895. First edition. Oblong quarto. Unpaged. (ii), 6 pp text, the painting displayed in black and white on 7 pages. In publisher's binding of white cloth spine over paper-covered boards printed in red and black. Laid in is a 45" folded supplement to... More about THE QUEST OF THE HOLY GRAIL:
Newcastle: Printed by E. Walker for T. Bewick and Son, 1818. First edition, 500 copies printed in this format. Imperial 8vo (25.5 cm). xxiv,376p. Illustrated from the wood engravings of Thomas Bewick: 188 fables with 188 headpieces and 136 other vignettes. Bound in period tan calf, a.e.g., the spine with... More about THE FABLES OF AESOP, AND OTHERS, WITH DESIGNS ON WOOD BY THOMAS BEWICK
Paris: Le Boucher, 1773-74. First edition. [vi], iv, 280p; xvi,104p. Illustrated with engraved frontispiece and 25 head- and tail-pieces by Massard after Eisen. Includes Hero et Leandre with separate title-page and engraved frontispiece by Duclos after Eisen. Bound by Hayday in full pebbled morocco with marbled endpapers, a.e.g., gilt spine..... More about ANACREON, SAPHO, BION ET MOSCHUS:
London: Lawrence & Bullen, 1893. Limited to 1000 copies. xxix, 224p. Printed in English on the rectos and Greek on the versos. Illustrated with ten plates by Weguelin. Bound in half crimson morocco with marbled sides and endpapers, t.e.g., gilt spine title. More about ANACREON: WITH THOMAS STANLEY'S TRANSLATION. EDITED BY A.H. BULLEN. ILLUSTRATED BY J.R. WEGUELIN
London: Adam and Charles Black, 1911. xliii, 1329. Illustrated by Anne Anderson with six color plates, each text page with a decorative border in gilt. Small 4to. Bound with gilt-titled morocco spine and marbled boards. More about AUCASSIN AND NICOLETE
London: Thornton Butterworth Limited, n.d. 189p. Illustrated by Jean de Bosschere on every verso with text on the facing rectos, each page with large illustrated borders in various colors. Bound in publisher's gray boards with titles on spine and upper cover in brown. A scarce de Bosschere title with the..... More about THE FAIRIES UP-TO-DATE
New York: Boni & Liveright, (1874)1928. Limited to 2050 copies signed by the publisher. Two volumes. xx, 291p; xiv, 266p. Edited by Ernest Boyd. Illustrated by Ralph Barton with 31 full-page plates in black and white with red highlights. Bound in quarter rust-colored morocco with marbled sides, t.e.g., the spines... More about DROLL STORIES
London: Hodder & Stoughton, n.d. [1914]. Quarto. viii, 235p. Illustrated by Hugh Thomson, including twenty inserted tipped-in color plates. Bound in full golden tan crushed morocco with marbled endpapers, t.e.g., the spine with gilt titles and double ruled panel borders with dotted rules on the bands, the covers with two..... More about THE ADMIRABLE CRICHTON
[London]: Hodder and Stoughton, n.d. [1913]. First Trade edition. Quarto. Illustrated by Hugh Thomson with 22 tipped-in color plates with titled tissue guards. In publisher's mauve cloth with pictorial cover designs densely gilt with illustrated endpapers. We think this one of Thomson's best. More about QUALITY STREET, A COMEDY IN FOUR ACTS
London and New York: Edward Arnold, Publisher to the India Office, 1897. "New Edition" Quarto. xix, (iii), 344p. Illustrated by John Leech and G. H. Jalland with 14 engraved plates, frontispiece in color by Leech, 5 other in color by Jalland. Beautifully rebound in quarter tan crushed morocco with cloth... More about REMINISCENCES OF A HUNTSMAN
Paris (?): Printed by Didot (?), 1775 (?). 8vo. (iv) 170p. Engraved title after Baquoy and 7 engraved plates: 4 after Eisen by Baquoy and Ponce and 3 after Martini by Gaucher, Baquoy and Patas. Binding signed Bonle (with "S. D. " at spine foot). Full tan crushed morocco with... More about L'ART D'AIMER, ET POESIES DIVERSES
London: Bernard Quaritch, 1885-87. Memorial Edition limited to 750 copies signed by the publisher (this no. 253). Five volumes. Volumes I and II: British Birds; Volume III: History of Quadrupeds; Volume IV: Aesop's Fables; Volume V: Memoir. Bound in quarter tan morocco with cloth sides and marbled endpapers, t.e.g., the... More about THOMAS BEWICK'S WORKS
Garden City, NY: Doubleday, 1970. Quarto. xi, 358p. + color maps and register for family history. Illustrated by Salvador Dali with 32 full-page color lithos. Bound in full white simulated leather with marbled endpapers, a.e.g. Copies in the white binding seen less often. More about THE JERUSALEM BIBLE
Paris: Boivin & Cie. Printed by Firmin-Didot, 1931. First edition in French. Quarto. 160p. Illustrated by Bilibin, including 8 tipped-in color plates. Black and white text illustrations, initials, head- and tail-pieces. Every page with decorative border in red. Tan cloth with pictorial design on upper cover in several colors and... More about CONTES DE L'ISBA
New York: Da Capo Press, 1967. Reprint of the 1926 edition. Quarto. xiv, 140p. +82 plates, some in color. Green cloth with gilt titles on spine and upper cover. More about THE ENGRAVED DESIGNS OF WILLIAM BLAKE
London: Trianon Press, 1973. First edition thus, limited to 808 copies on Arches paper. Folio. Color facsimile reproduction of the illuminated pages by the collotype and stencil process. Gilt-titled morocco spine with marbled boards. More about THE BOOK OF AHANIA
London: The Trianon Press, 1971. First edition. No. 197 of 616 copies. Two volumes. Folio and octavo. The plates reproduced by the collotype and hand-stencil process. Bound in gilt-titled quarter morocco with marbled sides. Both volumes housed in matching divided slipcase. More about THERE IS NO NATURAL RELIGION
New York: Boni & Liveright, 1925. First edition thus, limited to 2000 sets signed by the publisher. Two volumes. Quarto. xxix, 374p; xii, 355p. Translated by John Payne. Illustrated by Clara Tice with forty-eight full page black and white engravings. Bound in 3/4 red crushed levant morocco with marbled boards... More about THE DECAMERON
Garden City: Garden City Publishing, 1949. Limited to 1500 copies Signed by Kent. Two volumes. Illustrated by Rockwell Kent. Large 8vo. Maroon cloth stamped in gilt. More about THE DECAMERON
Berlin: Ernst Wasmuth, 1924. xii, 35p. + 120 color plates. Folio. Gilt-titled blue cloth over beveled boards. More about DAS ORNAMENTWERK, EINE SAMMLUNG ANGEWANDTER FARBIGER ORNAMENTA UND DEKORATIONEN
Versailles: A. Bourdier, [c. 1921]. Oblong quarto. 20 lovely color plates (8 1/4" X 11 3/4") with accompanying text in English and French. Preface by Fernand Sabatte. Bound in black-printed red wraps. More about PALAIS NATIONAL DE MALMAISON: