Below is a short list of some of our more interesting titles. This list is updated regularly.
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
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
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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
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
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
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
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
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
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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
London: Elkin Mathews and John Lane, 1892. Folio. Hard Cover. Limited Edition. Signed. Signed by William Strang, and numbered 123 of 150 copies. Complete with ten engraved illustrations, and engraved title page. Toning to the endpapers only. Slight staining to..... More
New York: Thomas Y. Crowell Company, c. 1930. Signed. Mauve silk binding with decorations and titling in gilt. #392 of 500 copies from the American issue, from a total limitation of 1250 of which 750 went to England. Signed by..... More
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
