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London: Printed by D. N. Shury for J. F. Hughes, 1805. Full Leather. First Edition. First Edition of Voltairiana, selected and translated by Mary Julia Young, one of Dale Spender’s ‘Mothers of the Novel.’ A prolific author of fiction and..... More about VOLTAIRIANA. IN FOUR VOLUMES. SELECTED AND TRANSLATED FROM THE FRENCH
Brattleboro, Vermont: Green River Press | Stillgate Publishers, [1988]. Original Sewn Wrappers. Limited Edition. Limited Edition of 1000 copies, this copy numbered 595. From the colophon: “handset in fourteen point Bembo, cast by the Golgonooza Letter Foundry & Press of... More about THE TEN OXHERDING PICTURES
Andoversford, Gloucester, England: Whittington Press, 1990. In tan quarter-Nigerian goatskin over patterned paper boards, accompanied by matching portfolio containting 12 groups of items associated with the Whittington Press. One of 55 copies of the deluxe edition, from a total edition... More about A MISCELLANY OF TYPE
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Edinburgh and London: William Blackwood and Sons, n.d. 16mo. Half Leather. The full set of Tales from Blackwood in 12 volumes, bound in 6; accompanied by the New Series, in 12 separate volumes. The 18 volumes are uniformly bound in... More about TALES FROM BLACKWOOD (12 VOLUMES IN 6); [AND] NEW SERIES, VOLUMES 1-12 (18 VOLUMES; SET
London: [1821]. Half Leather. Third Edition. A satire, by William Combe, of William Gilpin’s notion of the ‘Picturesque,’ who famously said that Tintern Abbey might be improved with “a mallet judiciously used.” Illustrated by Thomas Rowlandson, the famous English caricaturist..... More about THE TOUR OF DOCTOR SYNTAX, IN SEARCH OF THE PICTURESQUE. | THE SECOND TOUR OF DOCTOR SYNTAX, IN...
London: R. Ackermann, 1822. Combe’s sequel and the final original installment of the Doctor Syntax series A handsome “tall” copy, illustrated by Thomas Rowlandson with 24 hand-colored aquatint plates. Full polished tan calf, a.e.g., the spine with morocco titles, and..... More about THE HISTORY OF JOHNNY QUAE GENUS, THE LITTLE FOUNDLING OF THE LATE DOCTOR SYNTAX: A POEM
New York: D. Appleton and Company, [1872]. Full Leather. William Cullen Bryant’s Picturesque America, complete in two volumes. A travel guide to the outdoor attractions and phenomena, grouped by geographical region of the United States. Collates complete, with frontispiece and..... More about PICTURESQUE AMERICA; OR, THE LAND WE LIVE IN. A DELINEATION BY PEN AND PENCIL OF THE MOUNTAINS,...
London: T. Cadell and W. Davies, Strand, 1809. Full Leather. A clean copy. Filled with numerous aquatint plates of the ruins, abbeys, and countryside of Gilpin’s Two Tours. Bound in speckled calf with decorations and rules, and a black morocco..... More about OBSERVATIONS ON SEVERAL PARTS OF THE COUNTIES OF CAMBRIDGE, NORFOLK, SUFFOLK, AND ESSEX. ALSO ON...
New York: The Grenfell Press, 1985. Folio. Vellum Binding. Limited Edition, numbered H of 15 lettered copies from a larger limitation of 100 copies. Signed by Gass on the colophon; signed by Morley on the frontispiece. Full bound in limp... More about CULP
London: Richard Bentley, 1844. Full Leather. Second Edition. Second Edition of William H. Prescott’s History of the Conquest of Mexico, complete in three volumes. Three portrait frontispieces, one at the start of each volume; two folding maps of Mexico; one..... More about HISTORY OF THE CONQUEST OF MEXICO, WITH A PRELIMINARY VIEW OF THE ANCIENT MEXICAN CIVILIZATION,...
New York: R. H. Russell, 1898. Quarto. Hard Cover. First American Edition. First American Edition of William Nicholson’s An Almanac of Twelve Sports, with verse by Rudyard Kipling. An early example of ‘Poster Style’ artwork, with full page engraved illustrations..... More about AN ALMANAC OF TWELVE SPORTS
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New York: Harper and Brothers, [1935]. Hard Cover. Second Printing. Signed. This copy has been signed with a personal inscription to one “William B. Arnold In memory of the delightful afternoon we spent together in my studio. W. R. Leigh”..... More about THE WESTERN PONY [With Original Drawing; Signed
Kyoto [?]: Nakamura Tasuke [?], 1800. Album of genre scenes by the artist Yamaguchi Soken (1759-1818) who was a pupil of the great Maruyama Okyo. Splendidly colored woodcuts, with a surprisingly contemporary graphic impact, on double leaves in the oriental... More about HONGANJI NI KENNOU KINGIN SAIKU ZUE ZEN