Below is a short list of some of our more interesting titles. This list is updated regularly.
![FINE BINDING] [SPECIAL PRESS] DREISSIG HANDZEICHNUNGEN. AUS EINEM REISESKIZZENBUCH DES MALERS....](/pictures/thumb/291574.jpg?v=1591220579)
Mannheim, Germany: Mannheimer Bibliophilen - Gesellschaft, 1932. Limited Edition. In 1932 the Mannheim Bibliophile Society issued a facsimile of a travel sketch book by German landscape artist Theodor Verhas, reproducing 30 sketches of various European sites. The printing process was..... More
![FINE BINDINGS] THE HISTORY OF ENGLAND FROM THE ACCESSION OF JAMES THE SECOND [5 VOLUMES] [with]...](/pictures/thumb/292484.jpeg?v=1604758910)
London: Longman, Brown, Green and Longmans | Longman, Green, Longmans and Roberts, 1849, 1855, 1860, 1861. Full Leather. Two works -- Macaulay’s History of England and his Critical and Historical Essays -- uniformly bound in eight volumes by Zaehnsdorf. The..... More
Edinburgh: Stirling & Slade; et al. 1820. Full Leather. A handsome set in burgundy diced calf, with boards ruled in gold at the perimeters; spines with decorations in gold and black morocco labels. The rear board of Volume 1 has..... More
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
![TALES FROM BLACKWOOD (12 VOLUMES IN 6); [AND] NEW SERIES, VOLUMES 1-12 (18 VOLUMES; SET). Willam...](/pictures/thumb/282228.JPG?v=1591216840)
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
![ILLUSTRATED BOOKS] THE THREE TOURS OF DOCTOR SYNTAX. THE TOUR OF DOCTOR SYNTAX, IN SEARCH OF THE...](/pictures/thumb/284114.JPG?v=1591217184)
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
![FINE BINDING] [ILLUSTRATED] THE HISTORY OF JOHNNY QUAE GENUS, THE LITTLE FOUNDLING OF THE LATE...](/pictures/thumb/292471.jpg?v=1604616600)
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
London: Printed by John Baskerville; for J. and R. Tonson, 1761. Royal Octavo. Full Leather. The Baskerville Congreve, in three volumes; nicely bound in black straight-grained morocco with raised bands, decorative motifs and lettering in gilt; triple ruled at the..... 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
![ILLUSTRATED BOOKS] AN ALMANAC OF TWELVE SPORTS. William Nicholson, | Rudyard Kipling, Text](/pictures/thumb/285486.jpg?v=1604846161)
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
![THE WESTERN PONY [With Original Drawing; Signed]. William R. Leigh](/pictures/thumb/279226.JPG?v=1591216546)
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
![DRAMA] THE DRAMATIC WORKS OF WILLIAM SHAKSPEARE: WITH GLOSSARIAL NOTES, A SKETCH OF HIS LIFE, AND...](/pictures/thumb/292354.jpg?v=1604880688)
London: Moon, Boys, & Graves, 1832. Folio. Full Leather. From the Preface: “The present collection of Shakspeare’s Plays differs in arrangement from any that has hitherto been published. The Tragedies, Comedies and Historical Plays are divided; and in each division..... 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
